2013 Arnot-Roberts Syrah North Coast

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 91.0 points

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  10/15/2023 - acidqueen wrote: 90 Points

  In drinking window and no reason to keep this much longer. Tasty olive and berry flavors with earth. I like AR Syrahs, but for a wine like this which will never be as complex as Clary or Que Syrah I do wish the aging profile were a bit shorter. Ten years is a long time to wait. That being said, I really appreciate the AR style. We had a 2013 Ramey Rogers Creek Syrah last week and the 14.5 alcohol heat was terrible. The contrast between this and that is clear. This is so much better.

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  7/17/2023 - jvphoto Likes this wine: 92 Points

  dinner at The Morris in SF, mix of main course dishes
  some tertiary stuff poking through but still plush

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  9/12/2022 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:

  Tasted over 2 hrs
  -opaque dark red purple
  -rich dark berry black pepper violet olive juice
  -med acidity, med weight med+ concentration juicy earthy dark berry violet, med/med- tannins
  -this is a beautiful marriage of new world fruit hitting its mature stage and northern Rhône savory, full of energy life and density, just as good as a bottle 5 years ago, in a great place now and no hurry either, bravo!

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  3/10/2020 - acidqueen wrote: 89 Points

  Good wine finally drinkable without a long decant. Dark, black olive,earth and blackberry. Not especially complex but savory and flavorful.

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  5/5/2019 - MLipton wrote:

  Brambly blackberry and earth with some black pepper and green olive. Still pretty young but still drinking well. It should continue to improve for a while yet.

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