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Sirius - February 2006

Tasted January 1, 2006 - February 28, 2006 by jbaron with 449 views

Flight 1 (3 notes)

Red
2003 Sean Thackrey Petite Sirah Sirius Eaglepoint Ranch USA, California, North Coast, Mendocino County
93 points
(Decanted for 4 hours)
Surely infanticide, but I wished to taste before deciding on further purchases, and I was in the mood for a bruiser.

It's always amazing (to me) that a wine so dark and impenetrable can have such a nose and a taste. Intense fruit aromas of boysenberries, blueberries, and black cherries, with a creamy, licorice-y, peppery background that sort of "envelopes" the fruit without overpowering it, or even standing beside it. It has a very good, 30 second length, and a good, mouthcoating midpalate, something that I sometimes find lacking in these dense wines. There's nothing subtle about this wine (it reminds me of a bruiser Dunn HM, but with a "higher pitched" flavor profile) and it's hard to imagine, even as it ages, that it's going to get more delicious. (I like my Dunn's young - sort of...) Drink now (with 4-plus hours of decanting) with incredible fruit or drink in 15 years with less but more complex flavors? Hard to say...

I wished that I could have tasted this along side of the 2001 and 2002 versions, but I do remember (having compared those two previously) that this version stands at least at the same level as those two.
Red
2002 Sean Thackrey Petite Sirah Sirius Eaglepoint Ranch USA, California, North Coast, Mendocino County
91 points
It's taken me hours to get this tasting note going. Last Friday, I write a note on the 2003 version of this wine (super! tasty! zesty!) and here I am, and I'm stuck. I've had the 2001 version twice (in 2 years), the 2003 version once (last week) and this, the 2002 version, once prior, last year. And yet I'm stuck. I can't decide "how" to like this wine more than I really like it. Perhaps it's a slightly off bottle, but it's hard to make that judgement on a wine that still tastes quite nice.

I think that I'm stuck because, while this wine "tastes like" my memories of the others, it doesn't have the same zing of last week's 2003. I opened this wine at about 3:30 pm today, and here I am at 9:30, and I've been drinking it for 4 hours. The 2003 also took 4 hours to down, but it was 4 hours of savoring. This one is 4 hours of drinking. It *has* put on substantial weight (I did not taste it when I first opened it) and now tastes (quite nicely) of blueberries, eucalyptus, a sort of rose/flowery sort of thing, and a bit of oak; hours ago, it was quite a bit muddled, with much more primary flavors. It has a nice, though not huge, presence in the mouth, and I think that while it might even out a bit over the next few years, it doesn't strike me as a wine that's going to go the distance like it seems that the 2003 version might do. Smooth and steady, this one. I'm going to try to revisit the 2001 next weekend. In the meantime, this 2002 version is a smooth talker sort of wine in a Bette Midler sort of family. Go figure.
Red
2001 Sean Thackrey Petite Sirah Sirius Eaglepoint Ranch USA, California, North Coast, Mendocino County
93 points
I've been waiting for two weeks to taste this wine, having tasted first the '03 and then the '02 over the past while. This '01 tastes like a less evolved (and weightier) version of the 2002. It's fruiter (blackberries and blueberries) and earthier (graphite, rocks, oak) than the 2002. It also has more of a "mouthfilling feel", a better midpalate than the 2002.

The 2001 has finer but more substantial tannins than the 2002, and this wine (the 2001) seemed to shut down after 4 or 5 hours from the tannin. In contrast, the 2003 also has substantial tannins, but they are much broader and more coarse than those in the 2001.
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