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| Drinking window: Drink between 2015 and 2017 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.7 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by The Drunken Cyclist on 8/30/2023 & rated 88 points: Retail $25. Heavy bottle. I picked up this bottle on a visit to the winery back in 2015. This week, I am trying to do a little inventory in the cellar and I came across this bottle which I immediately realized needed to be consumed. Fairly dark in the glass with stewed plum and blackberry aromas. Add in a bit of anise, menthol, and pencil shavings, and we are almost there. As some have mentioned, there is a bit of Brett here, but it is far from debilitating, in fact, I find it, um, charming? Sure, this is likely past its prime, maybe even "well past" but I find it charming if not compelling.
www.thedrunkencyclist.com (318 views) | | | Tasted by CarmenScott on 5/15/2021 & rated 90 points: Still a delicious wine. Blackberry and cherry finish. Perfect with a spicy Ethiopian wat. (481 views) | | | Tasted by Geoffwine on 2/16/2018 & rated 89 points: Lovely right now. A delicate, mild blueberry-flavoured, mid-palate sweetness make this an enjoyable drink. Certainly a light northern Rhone style; possibly lacking a little heft and complexity but very drinkable. Don't keep any longer. (962 views) | | | Tasted by Teawine on 4/10/2017: Very interesting - in the good kinda way... Big aromas, with lots going on: blackberry, blackcurrant, and olive, with toasty savoury aromas. Smoke and old leather. Black pepper. Slight reductive smell, but still ok to me. Enjoyable wine! Still has potential. (1143 views) | | | Tasted by thehaughleydrinker on 10/10/2016 & rated 88 points: Deep purple, with a red tinge. Delicious red fruits on the nose, dominated by raspberry. Finely balanced in the glass, smokey red fruits but perhaps a touch too much smoke that fails to pull this into the 90s. Very well made though, but £16 is enough. (1356 views) | | | Tasted by Blue92 on 9/22/2016 & rated 88 points: Deep, refined and fruit-forward, this Northern Rhone varietal yields a smooth and robust wine with black pepper and black cherry on the finish. (1187 views) | | | Tasted by pjaines on 9/18/2016: Clunky and chunky right now and lacks nuance. Will it get any better than the oaky bacon it currently has? Probably not. (1433 views) | | | Tasted by kmwesley on 9/9/2015 & rated 90 points: K: 90
M: 85 (838 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Kopanski on 3/10/2015 & rated 87 points: Everything was going along fine on this wine with my drinking partner, until my palate got to the the brettanomyces. Deep rich dark color. To me a funky nose, but everyone else was enthralled. There was plum and sandalwood and baking spice with something savory, but also something weedy, stemmy and briny. There is enough fresh upfront fruit with underlying structure for this wine to merit the acceptance it has. Hate to rain on the parade, but the brett diminished the fruit, brought on a tree sap flavor, ruined the mouth feel, and left me disappointed, alongside some people who loved it. (881 views) |
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A second website focussed specifically on the Farmhouse range of winesSyrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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