2016 K Vintners Syrah Motor City Kitty Oldfield-Boushey Vineyard

• By Stephen Tanzer
  New Releases from Washington: A Bonanza for Consumers (Dec 2019), 12/1/2019, (See more on Vinous...)

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

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• By James Suckling
  4/22/2019, (See more on JamesSuckling.com...)

  (K Vintners Syrah Yakima Valley Motor City Kitty, Red, United States) Login and sign up and see review text.

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• By Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2016s From Washington State, 4/11/2019, (See more on JebDunnuck.com...)

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Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull K, 5/26/2019

  (K Vintners Syrah Motor City Kitty Oldfield-Boushey Vineyard) 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. 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 fourth time we’ve been able to access MCK, generally regarded as one of the stronger values in the K Syrah lineup. Warning: past allocations of MCK have been *brutal*. We’re going to ask for max order requests of 4 bottles, but more likely allocations are 1-2 bottles, and I won’t be surprised if some folks are shut out entirely. Apologies if that’s the case. Entirely from Boushey Oldfield, it spent 47 days on skins, and was aged entirely in large-format French puncheons, 25% new. Listed alc is 14.5%. From Charles: Not shy to say, super expressive! Classic in approach which abounds with plum, black cherry, sandalwood, layered along with cured meat, white pepper and minerals. Voluminous, velvet and pure. Another milestone in the history that is M.C.K.