2012 Briceland Vineyards Syrah Mendocino County

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  8/18/2018 - CMN wrote:

  Primarily red fruited with black fruit playing a supporting role. There's also a beguiling floral note that appears on both the nose and the palate.
  
  Medium weight, nicely balanced with fine tannins and good acidity. There's enough structure and fruit to continue to last for at least another 5 years and most likely 10. Still, no harm in drinking now, it's a lovely drink.

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  10/12/2017 - CMN wrote: 91 Points

  My final bottle — nose is quite floral with a distinctive lilac aroma with purple fruit and spearmint hiding beneath.
  
  The palate is red and black fruited with purple flowers. Medium+ bodied and well-balanced with refined tannins, the finish keeps going on and on. Drink now through 2022+.

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  9/2/2016 - GoBlue2002 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A relatively easy drinking yet flavorful and balanced syrah.
  Surprisingly good, this fleshed out over time. This opened up watery on the mid-palate but gradually added lushness.
  This is a juicy juicy syrah. Good spice. Lacked the meaty cool climate syrah flavors.
  Me - 90, Wife-91

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  7/27/2015 - CMN Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Day 3: White floral nose. Flavors of purple fruits, white flowers and a faint herbal streak that reveals itself on the lingering finish. An elegant adaptation of Syrah that is medium-bodied with ample acid and fine tannins that suggest that this will benefit from medium-term again, though certainly approachable and delicious now.

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  3/14/2015 - CMN Likes this wine:

  A second go round with this wine and a completely different experience. The nose was very floral: lilacs, lilacs and more lilacs. Palate followed the nose, white and purple flowers with a pinch of purple fruit. Medium bodied and much more open than my last bottle. I chalk the variance down to the fact my previous bottle had just been bottled, whereas this had been under cork for a few months. Approachable now, will improve. Yum.

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