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| Drinking window: Drink between 2016 and 2021 (based on 7 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 14 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by SchlaepDog on 4/8/2023 & rated 93 points: Tasting note about an hour after opening and in a Zalto Bordeaux glass.
Still a nice translucent dark purple hue, the aromatics are quite intense showcasing stewed dark fruit, Christmas cake, forest pine, roasted meat, and petrol or alcohol.
In the mouth, it features fading red and black fruits like cherry and late summer plums. Quite savory mid-palate with iron, leather, earth, herbs like thyme, smoke. Finish is medium long and mostly savory with some red fruit along with an emerging euclalyptus flavor too
Overall, fully mature and in the right place. No need to hold further, although the wine showed no signs of decline yet. Drink now, but it will hold through 2025 or longer, but the fruit may be gone by then. (151 views) | | | Tasted by Seafoam Manor on 4/25/2020 & rated 92 points: Very good example of a larger scaled California Syrah. Very intense on the nose with violet and lavender floral notes meeting more savory bacon fat notes. The palate is largely fruit forward, with red plums and blackberries, but it is complicated by meatiness, pepper, smoke, olives and all of the notes you would expect from a cooler climate. Bitter notes rise up on the finish, but there's plenty of fruit to keep to from being an unpleasant, so it generally adds complexity. It handles the high alcohol very well and is probably a bit more acidic and it has very fine tannins, making this silky smooth but with a lift that I don't normally expect from a nearly 15% syrah. I think this was the first vintage of this bottling and I've found the more recent versions to be more refined as they get this more dialed in. (462 views) | | | Tasted by SchlaepDog on 4/10/2020 & rated 94 points: Incredibly aromatic. You could smell it across the room. So much red and black fruits along with baking spices and a savory element.
In the mouth, it was very fruit forward with layered black cherry, blackberry, pomegranate, and hints of cranberry. Texture was silk with baking spices, black pepper, black olive, and earth mixing into the long expressive finish.
This wine is just entering prime drinking window and should continue to get better next few years, no signs of fading. I'll drink my other one in 2023. (387 views) | | | Tasted by bbcc66 on 2/23/2018 & rated 88 points: Decanted 1 hr. Dark fruit nose. Medium body. Consistent dark fruit tastes. Enjoyable bottle. (690 views) | | | Tasted by DBunk on 4/10/2016 & rated 90 points: Good smokey blackberry and pepper with crushed stones, pencil shavings and tart plums. Really great cool climate Syrah acidity playing through on this. Went nicely with the smokey coffee rubbed tri-tip. (1190 views) | | | Tasted by pmccullough17 on 11/29/2015 & rated 91 points: Solid wine. Very dark red. Looks like it has petite Syrah in the mix. In wine, you get what you pay for. Is it really nice why but it comes at a high price. Great grapes, good color, very nice balance of acid, fruit, and taste. Consumes well now....will improve over the next few years. (1364 views) | | | Tasted by Papajakey on 8/31/2015 & rated 91 points: Black pepper abounds; on the nose and the palate! Dark fruit laced with nice acidity and mellow tannins; all interspersed with, you guessed it, pepper. The finish is strong and long. A little hot but it is young and will definitely grow more subtle over the coming years. I loved this wine and can't wait to try another in a few years! (1065 views) |
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Vinous, Santa Barbara: On the Road, Continued... (Sep 2016) (9/1/2016)
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| Dragonette Cellars Producer websiteSyrah 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. John Sebastiano VineyardJohn Sebastiano Vineyard is a new hillside planting (2007) of Pinot Noir on the Eastern edge of the Santa Rita Hills appellation. The vineyard takes its name from the two owners, John and Sebastiano. Foxen has a monopoly on three blocks; 2.3 acres of clone 2A, 2.7 acres of Dijon 667, and 3.5 acres of Dijon 115. 2010 was our first harvest.
Updating to add that Syrah and Grenache are grown at this site. For example, the 2019 Sans Soufre Ajouté from Ojai is designated John Sebastiano Vineyard. See:https://www.ojaivineyard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/19SSA-OneSheet.pdf
"BLEND 50% Grenache, 50% Syrah
VINEYARDS John Sebastiano Vineyard"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 Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
http://beveragetradenetwork.com/en/btn-academy/list-of-winegrowers-association-in-central-coast-california-274.htm
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