My first time to open this wine since release. WOW WOW WOW! I was skeptical of the 98 pts when it was released but this wine is BANGING! 14.3% etoh, deep rich concentrated dark fruit. Typical Cali Syrah notes in spades. Balanced, acidity to spare, wonderful minerality. Clean long finish. Wish I’d opened on a weekend so I could enjoy more thoroughly. Top flight Syrah. Kudos to Joe Donelan.
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Decanted for an hour before service. In the glass, dark red at the rim, fading quickly to black at the core. On the nose, blackberries, with no sign of aging - aromatically, this could be a barrel sample. On the palate, blackberry liqueur, plums, saline notes, and a faint hint of camphor, with mild tannins on a long fruit-driven finish. This seems to be resolving nicely.
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Classic dark brooding Syrah. Roasted meats, dark cherry and blackberry fruit, minerals and graphite. Dark and rich but with an impeccable balance between the fruit and savory elements,
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P&P. Cold. Cant even describe this nose. Wow....terrior in a glass. So beautiful, delicate, masculine. So much blue fruit, mixed wet stones, rough herbs, earth, blood. Yum. Just want to smell this. The palate is wild. This is in a perfect place, so balanced, so delicious, euthreral.
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Again screwed up the decant (opened as treat following hours of buckthorn eradication work). Opened up beautifully as night went on. Absolutely will decant next bottle.
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5/10/2021 - texaswinelover wrote:
My first time to open this wine since release. WOW WOW WOW! I was skeptical of the 98 pts when it was released but this wine is BANGING! 14.3% etoh, deep rich concentrated dark fruit. Typical Cali Syrah notes in spades. Balanced, acidity to spare, wonderful minerality. Clean long finish. Wish I’d opened on a weekend so I could enjoy more thoroughly. Top flight Syrah. Kudos to Joe Donelan.
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2/9/2021 - jshufelt wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for an hour before service. In the glass, dark red at the rim, fading quickly to black at the core. On the nose, blackberries, with no sign of aging - aromatically, this could be a barrel sample. On the palate, blackberry liqueur, plums, saline notes, and a faint hint of camphor, with mild tannins on a long fruit-driven finish. This seems to be resolving nicely.
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1/1/2021 - brettay wrote: 93 Points
Classic dark brooding Syrah. Roasted meats, dark cherry and blackberry fruit, minerals and graphite. Dark and rich but with an impeccable balance between the fruit and savory elements,
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6/22/2019 - tplskylrk wrote:
P&P. Cold. Cant even describe this nose. Wow....terrior in a glass. So beautiful, delicate, masculine. So much blue fruit, mixed wet stones, rough herbs, earth, blood. Yum. Just want to smell this. The palate is wild. This is in a perfect place, so balanced, so delicious, euthreral.
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10/29/2018 - Minnesota wrote: 94 Points
Again screwed up the decant (opened as treat following hours of buckthorn eradication work). Opened up beautifully as night went on. Absolutely will decant next bottle.
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