Community Tasting Note
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z_willus_d wrote: 93 points
February 13, 2021 - Drunk several days back, I should have recorded a note while this wine was fresh in mind; but it had enough of an impact on me to take a moment now. I drank the wine over three days. It was opened and tasted without any decant or significant aeration the day after finishing a '17 Drew Valenti Syrah. The Drew was such a transparent, energetic, and transcendent a bottle of Syrah, I had to know how the Halcon top shelf wine would compare at not much over half the price. In my mind, the two wines were likely comparable, but I'd not tried a Drew Syrah for a while and wanted to make the comparison, granted one vintage off. At any rate, that's enough about the Drew, which I guess didn't get a note. This wine came out the bottle with semi reticent nose, great structure of silty tannin, and showing a meaty dark-berried, full on the mid wine that I've come to recognize from Paul's Syrahs. I thought the wine drank exceptionally young on day-1 and it seemed to ask for more time (bottle or open). At any rate, the wine was only finer, more complex, and composed on day-2 and happily even better and incredibly fine on day-3 where I finished the 2nd half of the bottle. I have to believe this wine is going places. I want more of it. Of the many great California Syrah wines in recent years, these Halcon and Drew are my favorites. Ok, there are a lot of other greats, but these are the go-to producers for my house.
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