Last bottle. Very powerful - hard to believe it's ten years old and hard to imagine it will ever fade. This ages really well and is probably still getting better over time. Dark fruit, licorice, tar, some white pepper but this is not that spicy. There is a beautiful creamy texture that I really appreciate. As good a syrah as one could hope for. 94+pts.
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Compact and dense, which is impressive considering the wine is ten years old now. The spice note on the finish is more pronounced than I remember. Nice stuff.
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Lush, smooth, light on its feet, nice on the mid-palate. Some spice but overall quite smooth and settled at this stage of its development. In its prime; drink now.
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8/4/2015 - John McCabe wrote: 94 Points
Last bottle. Very powerful - hard to believe it's ten years old and hard to imagine it will ever fade. This ages really well and is probably still getting better over time. Dark fruit, licorice, tar, some white pepper but this is not that spicy. There is a beautiful creamy texture that I really appreciate. As good a syrah as one could hope for. 94+pts.
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2/14/2015 - John McCabe wrote: 93 Points
Compact and dense, which is impressive considering the wine is ten years old now. The spice note on the finish is more pronounced than I remember. Nice stuff.
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9/22/2014 - John McCabe wrote: 93 Points
Lush, smooth, light on its feet, nice on the mid-palate. Some spice but overall quite smooth and settled at this stage of its development. In its prime; drink now.
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3/25/2013 - John McCabe wrote: 93 Points
Nice as always, striking but soft too - drinking well now. A lot of black and white pepper.
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2/24/2013 - slippytoad wrote: 91 Points
Last bottle :-(. Wonderful Syrah still going strong.
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