2015 K Vintners Syrah Motor City Kitty

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Focus on Washington: The New Normal (Nov 2018), 11/1/2018, (See more on Vinous...)

  (K Vintners Syrah Motor City Kitty Washington Red) Login and sign up and see review text.

JebDunnuck.com

• By Jeb Dunnuck
  Latest Releases from Washington State, 4/5/2018, (See more on JebDunnuck.com...)

  (K Vintners Syrah Motor City Kitty Old Field Boushey Vineyard) Login and sign up and see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull The Kitty Jefe Creator, 5/9/2018

  (K Vintners Syrah Motor City Kitty) Hello friends. We have small parcels of a trio of rarities from the recent set of K Vintners releases. These offers are notorious for turning into feeding frenzies, and this one – our first of the year – promises to be extra cuckoo given the wines involved and the parcel sizes. So let me first offer two quick notes: 1. To the best of my knowledge, we have retail dibs on all three of these wines west of the mountains. 2. I suspect we’ll have to under-allocate here, given the parcel sizes, so a quick reminder of our allocation technique: Our allocations generally favor breadth over depth, so that everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. And our formula for prioritizing allocations includes overall orders, frequency of orders, recency of orders, list tenure, and size of order request, among other factors. Now, onto the wines:Jeb Dunnuck: Copyrighted material withheld. This is only the third time we’ve been able to access MCK, widely regarded as the best value in the K Syrah lineup. Warning: The past two allocations have been *brutal*. Entirely from Boushey Oldfield, it spent 49 days on skins, and was aged entirely in large-format French puncheons, 35% new. Listed alc is 14.5%. From Charles: With all the depth and richness you've come to expect from this single vineyard bottling - black cherry, earth, roasted meat, even charcoal abounds add dried herb. A thread of minerality and it all comes together in an exact and generous expression that speaks volumes as to why Washington Syrah is great!