2017 Craggy Range Syrah Gimblett Gravels Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88 points

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  5/14/2021 - PSPatrick wrote: 88 Points

  Syrahs from different continents to challenge a 100-point score (Skype): Wine 3 of 6 (blind). Dark ruby colour. Reductive nose. Slightly artificial red and some dark berry notes, black raspberry, coffee, intense vanilla, and coconutty oak, with good acidity, dry tannin, and very good length. Average concentration. The oak is still noticeable.
  
  By day two, the sweet, vanilla, coconutty, and lightly bitter oak is even more prominent, and off-putting to my taste at this point.
  
  This wine is very young. It will need time to integrate the oak and tannin, and a rib-eye steak. But even with time, this wine is just too heavy on the sweet oak for me. 88(?) for those who like the style.

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  11/16/2020 - scorbett Does not like this wine:

  Pedestrian and overpriced.

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  5/8/2019 - chatters wrote:

  New Zealand micro trip; 5/6/2019-5/9/2019 (North Island, New Zealand): Meat, iron blood, black pepper, earth, slight red and black berry. Light, fresh, drying tannins over power fruit on the palate. Hmm

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