Community Tasting Note

• JimTaft Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 12, 2019 - Very fine Syrah, enjoyable right out of the bottle but will likely age well for five or more years. Well balanced and delicious with tonight's Copper River sockeye salmon. Yum.
  
  Fruit forward with delightful aromatics, appropriate acidity and tannins. Very enjoyable now.

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6 Comments

• Parko82 commented:

  6/12/19, 5:56 PM - Great review Jim, would you say it's at peak? Cheers Parko

• whitejamesn commented:

  6/12/19, 9:56 PM - Josh at Vinious has drinking dates from 2025 if that helps

• OneForTheStairs commented:

  6/13/19, 6:22 AM - UK Wine Society suggests 2020-2034 window. The best is quite likely yet to come!

• thesternowl commented:

  6/13/19, 9:44 AM - Having had the joy of drinking this a few times, it's showing wonderfully now with some air but definitely has the balance and stuffing to drink fabulously well past 2025 and beyond.

• JimTaft commented:

  6/13/19, 3:28 PM - WOW, I got more comments on this brief note than any previous. I really appreciate the passion and commitment, obviously a popular bottle. Most comments indicated a much longer drink window including dates 2025 out to 2034.
  
  Much respect for all of the knowledge. I have a few more of these, thankfully.
  
  Tonight I am drinking the second half of this bottle, preserved as well as I could. Huge delightful fruit, wonderful aeromatics, significant but fairly well resolved tannins and moderate acidity. Tannins linger over a long finish.
  
  The bottle is stopped with a very high quality cork, extra long. With proper storage it will probably last as long as anyone will want to keep it. I'll be trying to hold onto one long into the future ... in the name of science!

• srh commented:

  9/16/21, 4:26 PM - NICE description (& strand comments), + TY for your extra effort to mention your pairing, Jim! 🙂 Should any of you be interested, I’ve uploaded info for this vintage which you can peruse at your leisure. 😉

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