2010 Southard Red Wine Sugarloaf Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  2/17/2020 - TheBeach wrote:

  - Garnet color with fast forming legs and aromas of smokey, tobacco, mushroom and tea. It's overly acidic and has flavours of cherry, strawberry, mushroom, licorice anise and fig with a medium/full body. Linear texture with a long finish - We bought this from Scott on one of our first trips to Yakima in 2012. Ten years in the bottle. The first bottle we opened to celebrate the completion of our cellar room. One of my all time favorite textured wines that has stuck with me for more than ten years. The flavor is still there but the texture has moved from silky perfection to a bit more lactic on the finish now.

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  10/25/2013 - VinLancaster wrote:

  Refined, like all of Scott’s wines; the 2010 Sugarloaf Grenache blend is no exception. Imparts flavors and aromas of spiced dark fruits, wet cement minerality and balanced earth with a plethora of structure. Drinks beautifully, complex and woefully glides down a little too quickly, as it is drinking so well I struggled to make it last long enough to evolve over the evening.

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  8/4/2013 - VinLancaster wrote:

  61% Grenache, 18% Mourvèdre, 12% Cinsault and 9% Counoise.
  Spiced fruit, easy drinking Grenache blend with backbone from the Mourvedre shows plenty of silkiness and wonderful brick wrapped in fruit. Ever so subtle coffee and toast on the brooding hind palate.

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  1/14/2013 - ChrisinCowiche wrote: 90 Points

  Beatuifdul light, elegent, grenache driven blend. Lots of complexity, lots to love. Need to buy more to watch this wine develope.

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  1/12/2013 - JasonG wrote: 89 Points

  The tang has pulled back on this wine, and it's richer and fuller of body than before, nicer. Alcohol is less pronounced on the nose. The other note on spiced plum, berries and loess is spot on. Glycerols add to additional mouthfeel, less sharp acids and better integrated, like a nice Rhone AOC. Finish need a little more oak tannin I think, but overall getting better, and that's a good sign for this wine. Wait another 6 months, see what happens.

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