I enjoyed it for what I was able to get. I found it muted and not overly complex. Almost felt like it was shut down. I am curious if "dumb phase" applies to a Syrah of this pedigree?
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I did like this wine mainly because it was correct for a syrah imho, savoury/pepper/olive and not all about the fruit like many cali syrahs, not to say it did not have fruit it had plenty! Pretty deep and dark and some heat
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Dark fruit, a little leathery, Some spice. Perhaps it didn't pair well with the food on the table, I did not get much of the bitter note the others mentioned. it wasn't my favorite Syrah of the night. I tried it before I tried stillmans Syrah trying to keeping my palate fresh ;)
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Admittedly, I don't think it was made in a style that I gravitate towards, but I found the same bitter, tart component klez did and found it similarly off-putting.
Was there stem inclusion with this? Maybe that's what we were picking up?
On the other hand, tyger liked it quite a bit. So, ymmv, clearly.
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so last week's gathering also sampled this one. It poured so dark I wondered if there was any PS blended in (specs say no). Nose was initially fairly closed down, but a bit of swirling revealed a lot to like: olives, dark cherries, blackberries, and some savoury notes. Hints of alcohol made it out here and there as well.
Palate was fairly classic Syrah: peppercorn, meat, olive, dark cherry. Medium tannin and finish. I found a rather pronounced (to me) bitter note both on the palate and the finish and figured I'd check in again later to see if that mellowed out.
After about 90 minutes of slow-ox in the bottle I still found it to have the bitter component, but otherwise it had improved on every other dimension.
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1/6/2017 - Wine.woot_taster wrote:
I enjoyed it for what I was able to get. I found it muted and not overly complex. Almost felt like it was shut down. I am curious if "dumb phase" applies to a Syrah of this pedigree?
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1/6/2017 - Wine.woot_taster wrote:
I did like this wine mainly because it was correct for a syrah imho, savoury/pepper/olive and not all about the fruit like many cali syrahs, not to say it did not have fruit it had plenty! Pretty deep and dark and some heat
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1/6/2017 - Wine.woot_taster wrote:
Dark fruit, a little leathery, Some spice. Perhaps it didn't pair well with the food on the table, I did not get much of the bitter note the others mentioned. it wasn't my favorite Syrah of the night. I tried it before I tried stillmans Syrah trying to keeping my palate fresh ;)
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1/6/2017 - Wine.woot_taster wrote:
Admittedly, I don't think it was made in a style that I gravitate towards, but I found the same bitter, tart component klez did and found it similarly off-putting.
Was there stem inclusion with this? Maybe that's what we were picking up?
On the other hand, tyger liked it quite a bit. So, ymmv, clearly.
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1/6/2017 - Wine.woot_taster wrote:
so last week's gathering also sampled this one. It poured so dark I wondered if there was any PS blended in (specs say no). Nose was initially fairly closed down, but a bit of swirling revealed a lot to like: olives, dark cherries, blackberries, and some savoury notes. Hints of alcohol made it out here and there as well.
Palate was fairly classic Syrah: peppercorn, meat, olive, dark cherry. Medium tannin and finish. I found a rather pronounced (to me) bitter note both on the palate and the finish and figured I'd check in again later to see if that mellowed out.
After about 90 minutes of slow-ox in the bottle I still found it to have the bitter component, but otherwise it had improved on every other dimension.
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