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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.7 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by mgl on 2/3/2020 & rated 91 points: Unbelievable. Found this rogue bottle in our cellar. Supposed to be waaay past its prime - it was fabulous. Prime consumption probably 3 years ago, but holding its own. Inky dark . No sign of being flawed. (461 views) | | | Tasted by mlawren1 on 7/24/2016 & rated 94 points: Deep dark raspberries, strawberries and plums. Finishes with chocolate and acid. (1069 views) | | | Tasted by tc from santee on 2/27/2016 & rated 90 points: Upon opening the the essence of black plum bursts from my glass. This is I nice not excellent Syrah. It's well balanced but failed to evolve over three days. Dark fruits, spice and licorice notes. The price point of $37 was a tops for this Syrah. It is not in the fad mode yet. (1175 views) | | | Tasted by vine20 on 8/20/2012 & rated 89 points: Deep ruby color with an austere, red fruit nose. Big red and black raspberry, cassis with noticeable alcohol up front. Nice structure and a medium finish. (3339 views) | | | Tasted by Troon on 1/22/2012 & rated 91 points: What a great Syrah. It took some time to open up, so I would say it could go a few more years. A decent amount of red fruit on the nose. There was some more red fruit on the palate. The finish was medium, and the wine seemed well balanced. (3801 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 8/15/2011: Big full and flush. Sweet and full and with lots of tannins and delicious. Hot and big and grippy but tasty too. (3624 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 5/25/2011: Dark and raspberry, with funky earth. Crazy stuff, but crazy dude. (3260 views) | | | Tasted by soyhead on 3/28/2010 & rated 90 points: Grand Tasting, SF, Rhone Rangers
Barrel Sample
Nose - immature, yeasty, cedar, cellar, black olive
mouth - deep dark and rich. Most likely will shut down in bottle
Points on potential (3587 views) |
| By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Issue #10 (12/4/2011)
(Eric Kent Wine Cellars Syrah Dry Stack Vineyard) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, May/June 2011, IWC Issue #156
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| Eric Kent Wine Cellars Producer website2008 Eric Kent Wine Cellars Syrah Dry Stack VineyardTasting Notes:
Our richest, fullest, most densely packed. . . let’s call it what it is; the 2008 vintage produced a massive Dry Stack Vineyard Syrah. But 40% whole-cluster fermentation, a judicious saignée and prudent management of each barrel produced a fascinatingly fruity, smokey, spicy, minerally, deliciously savory, and for all its size, balanced wine.
Dark purple reddish in color with aromas of blackberry, kirsch, smoked meat, coffee, iron and earth. The palate is all about intense dark black fruits, game and undercurrents of smoke and spice with firm, ripe tannins providing structure and backbone. A powerful youngster that merits another year to two in the cellar before its decadent unveiling.
Drinking Windows:
Prime drinking: late 2012 to 2015
Graceful ageability: 2017+
Analysis:
pH: 3.86
TA: 6.1 g/L
Alcohol: 15.1%
Bottling: March 19, 2010
Pre-Release: Fall 2010
Retail Release: Spring 2011
Total Produced: 197 casesSyrah 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 County |
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