1996 Truchard Syrah

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  12/18/2016 - alpha_ori Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Fruit: fresh, candied, and a touch of overripeness. But the age restrains it from being unbalanced. Still, I wonder what this would have tasted like ten years ago.
  
  Though I don't buy much of it, I've always been a Truchard fan. These interesting, lively twenty-year-old wines of theirs that I keep finding for minimal cost mean that will continue to be the case.

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  12/4/2015 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 90 Points

  FROM MAGNUM: This wine was more than alive with solid color any only hints of bricking, which was a pleasant surprise. A somewhat simple wine but very smooth, with black and blue fruits dominating. sweet Oak plus some nice soft leather and earthiness to it.

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  2/9/2008 - Arch57 wrote: 92 Points

  An enormous wine full of fresh fruit yet possessing remarkable secondary flavors found in a well aged wine. Spicy with raspberries and a bit of soy on the palate with a nose of earth and ripe fruit. This was the oldest Syrah I have ever had with most of the wines I drink with age being Cabs of Bordeaux blends. My wife kept saying this wine was big and bold.
  
  I was surprised at this wine showing so well. My son had given it to me as a gift a few months ago and he had found it just sitting on a shelf at a small liquor store. It was not carefully cellared as it sat on the retail shelf for a number of years. It must have been a well made wine to hold up in those conditions and it showed no signs of being past its prime.

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  11/15/2006 - A&B wrote: 87 Points

  Pretty good juice for beeing 10 years old. Relatively lean but good balance and some bottle age! Red fruit.

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  2/5/2003 - babnik wrote: 91 Points

  It’s been a few days since I had this wine, but I wanted to jot down a few notes... Very dark purple, almost black. Decanted almost an hour prior to serving. There was a touch of cedar smoke in the nose which integrated well as the wine opened up with a racy streak of blueberries. The fruit continued in the mouth with a fairly large wine that seemed well integrated with a rich meal of Oso Bucco. Truchard continues to make great wines. They have yet to disappoint.

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