2012 Herman Story Syrah White Hawk Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  6/18/2023 - Bob Fyke wrote: flawed

  Bummer! Corked, after 7 years in the cellar.

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  3/16/2023 - VlgJeff wrote: 92 Points

  Decanted for 30 minutes - with some sediment. A deep dark purple in the glass. Lots of dark red, blue and black fruits on the nose. All of these fruits follow on to the medium plus bodied palate along with lots of spice, some pepper and some earth. The acidity was juicy and nicely balanced all of the fruit. This wine is holding very well and should continue to hold for another couple of years.

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  9/11/2020 - FlyPig Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This is a well crafted Paso syrah, but 8-years in, still shows it's 15.4% as the most prominent feature. On second day it had settled in better, but not a style I appreciate as I once did.

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  8/9/2020 - Irienet wrote: 86 Points

  Too much jam. Headache wines

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  5/25/2020 - bjamesclark wrote: 92 Points

  100% Syrah aged in 65% New French oak for 22 months. Only 469 cases produced.
  Decanted and showing light to moderate sediment.
  Opaque, glass staining deep ruby with purple hues.
  Heavily scented with notes of boysenberry, marionberry and over-ripe plum, violet pastilles, vanilla, chips ahoy cookie, licorice, star anise, black pepper, espresso, forest floor, pine, leather, hot stone and hints of an auto shop.
  The palate retains a nice fruit core with mulled marionberry, plum and boysenberry pie with vanilla ice cream notes, violet pastilles, chocolate chip dough, baking spice and black pepper, vanilla latte, forest floor, licorice, leather and stone with hints of rubber innertube.
  The finish is long with the resolved tannins gripping on the front.

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