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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 23 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by rama on 1/19/2018: Ruby red. Bright. Reserved fruit. Touch of sweetness on the finish makes me think there was stem inclusion. Sneaky tannins grab you at the end. (1164 views) | | | Tasted by BigTarheel on 12/19/2017 & rated 88 points: A bit austere. Mid-body, granite, crush peppercorn, black fruit. Fine-grained tannins (1154 views) | | | Tasted by tomlee on 10/13/2016 & rated 90 points: Bright crimson in color. 13.3% ABV. Savory nose of red fruits, violets and olive brine. Medium body with nice acidity. Light, fresh and elegant. Bing cherries, grilled meats, white pepper and minerals on the palate. There are drying tannins on a long finish. Scrumptious Syrah. Attractively priced at $20 per bottle. Drink over the next 2-4 years. (1640 views) | | | Tasted by CamWheeler on 3/22/2016 & rated 90 points: Leveling the Lands - Blind: Violet and plums, bubblegum, orange, redcurrant and earth. Bright flavours on the palate, there is a nice tannic grip throughout. Good length and I like the fruit restraint. Good stuff. (1974 views) | | | Tasted by rc@ughey on 12/28/2015 & rated 88 points: Slightly muted nose. Dark, purple fruits are ripe but not at all overblown. Some minerality, acidity and structure. This is nice, but it's pretty one dimensional, and reasonably closed, at the moment. Hold. (2071 views) | | | Tasted by BigTex22 on 12/3/2015 & rated 88 points: Nice for the price. GOOD. (1170 views) | | | Tasted by David_T on 10/5/2015 & rated 90 points: Red cherry & red flower aromas. The palate shows fresh red cherry/raspberry notes, eucalyptus, olive and soy sauce. Medium+ acidity, light-medium tannins. Lighter style, I actually think this could use a bit more jam to balance the acid (opposite of so many syrahs). Nice for the price & I'd be curious to see where this goes with more age if I had more than one. (1185 views) | | | Tasted by Martin Redmond on 9/30/2015 & rated 88 points: Wines At Our Table; Week of October 4th, 2015; 9/28/2015-10/4/2015: Inky violet color with kirsch, red currant, white pepper and a hint of olive tapenade aromas. On the palate it's light bodied and fresh with mouth drying tannins that soften a bit with air. It shows cherry, red currant flavors wit a bit of stony minerality. Lingering finish. I think it needs food (not a bad thing) (1300 views) | | | Tasted by maxmanx on 9/23/2015: I've enjoyed other Sandlands more. (1078 views) | | | Tasted by mattsix on 8/10/2015: FRESH. All caps. (1953 views) | | | Tasted by BadOyster on 7/8/2015 & rated 91 points: Despite the press, this is not the end-all, be-all of "new california syrah". Sure, it's lovely acid, light-and-tart, bright red fruit - but it's not exactly complex or long or particularly graceful. Fitting of the $20 pricetag. (1109 views) | | | Tasted by MusignyBlanc on 7/1/2015: I've tasted through much of the Sandlands catalog and have really enjoyed the offerings - this was the first time tasting the Syrah. The style is light and quite fruity without much in the way of tannic structure. Some nice purity of fruit, and good acidity, but I found it one-dimensional and not very compelling. Perhaps a good porch wine on a summer day? Tasted over several days. (1284 views) | | | Tasted by tcarter on 6/27/2015 & rated 88 points: I didn't care for this. Too light bodied and slightly bitter for my taste. Maybe a bad bottle but I think it was fine and just isn't for me. And I like other Sandlands wines. (1046 views) | | | Tasted by Tubulus on 6/1/2015 & rated 93 points: Man, this is the best $20 syrah I've ever had (and beats many that are multiples of the price). Bright blue fruited with some savory notes. Excellent acidity. Medium smooth tannins but the fruit and acidity balance it nicely. (1166 views) | | | Tasted by MotoMannequin on 11/3/2014: Decanted and tasted immediately, drunk over the course of a couple hours. Dark purple ruby. Nose was initially muted, but lots of vigorous swirling reveals violets and olive tapenade. The savory notes carry onto the palate, with black olives, sage, a hint of red fruits. Finish is quite tannic. Might have guessed young St. Joseph. Impressively structured for the long haul. In fact I'd give this a few years before opening although it is great now with air and with food. (1689 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Dildine on 11/3/2014 & rated 91 points: Dark ruby. A bit closed in at the moment, but good depth and a fine acidic structure. Good now and will improve. (2004 views) |
| Sandlands Producer website
Sandlands is the personal project of Tegan and Olivia Passalacqua. The line-up encompasses the forgotten classic California varieties, primarily grown in decomposed granite (sand), from regions and vineyards that have been farmed for many generations but have remained the outliers of California viticulture.
Primarily head-trained, dry-farmed and own rooted, the vineyards we work with harken back to California’s roots of exploration, wonder, and hard work. 2010 Sandlands Syrah Amador CountyA 20-year-old block of own rooted Syrah planted in the decomposed granite and volcanic soils of the Sentinel Oaks Vineyard in the Shenandoah Valley. This wine was fermented whole cluster and aged for 18 months in 3-5 year old Burgundy barrels.Syrah 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 Sierra FoothillsAmador |
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