Muddled plum, savory meat, spicy dark cherry, with a notable seaweed/broccoli/decaying fruit thing. Anise, plump berry with almost too much weight, bitter palate with a faint effervescence that makes me think some secondary fermentation is happening. A lot to like but a lot to dislike too.

Candy, smoke, oak, and plum nose. Fairly light, bright and simple in comparison to the other wines tonight. The fruit has a Fun Dip kind of confection to it and there's some astringency I don't like. Decent.

Very different character from most wines tonight. Savory, charred meat, incense, olive, seaweed, licorice nose. Dark fruit without excessive ripeness, tobacco, brisk lemony acidity. Possesses a sense of balance and restraint. Consensus WOTN. Cool climate Syrah FTW!

Sweet strawberry candy nose. Boozy, jammy dessert palate. RP's wet dream.

Rich and boozy first impression with ripe plum and berry everywhere and a underlying plasticky thing. With air some pepper and more savory tones emerged but this was kind of lost in the mix as it was intermediate on the ripeness, alcohol, meatiness, and had nothing to stand out. As such, it was the sleeper and ended up being my second favorite wine at the end of the night.

Chocolate, currant, licorice, and a green Cab streak too. Sweet toasty oak dominates and the palate is all coffee and berries slathered in creamy toffee. Truly a "Dolly Parton" wine, there is a lot to like about this and perhaps even more to dislike. I don't really know what to think except that I won't be buying.

Muddy, iodine, chemical, weird as hell. I'm thinking Brettanomyces on this one.

Dark fruit, candy oak, clay nose. Meaty, sweet/savory palate that has an awkward and conspicuous lack of fruit. Not something I can get behind.

Vinyl, flambeed bananas, wild honey, peach, honeysuckle. Incredibly sweet without the acid to back it up - this almost hurts as the sugar crystallizes on your tongue. More like drinking honey than wine, not a particularly pleasant experience.