This pours a dense inky purple with some bright, punchy blue and purple tinged fruit. Contrasting this, there's a real tartness and freshness to the fruit profile. The nose shows blueberry, blackberry, mulberry and a hint of smoke. Good fresh acid and pure fruit on the medium minus finish. Has the potential to pick up a point or two as it ages and hopefully picks up some secondary aromas. Overall this is very focused on the very pure fruit. A good start.

This wine is in a really nice spot with lots of caper, green peppercorn, olive, tar, crushed rock, smoke, cedar, iodine, blueberry, blackberry liquor, anise and blue licorice. Pretty classic Syrah. Palate still has light dusty tannin with moderate acid and a medium plus finish built on capers, smoke and bright licorice fruit. Very enjoyable and in a good drinking window.

Thanks, Paul for opening something with a little age on it. This opens up with a really nice chocolatey, espresso note. Additionally: cassis, plum, dark cherry, black currant jelly, graphite and crushed rock. Grippy tannin, somewhat low in acid and finishes on ripe dark plums and dark mixed berries. This is another wine that is focused on very pure, dark and optimally ripe fruit. For me to go higher score-wise I would usually look for overall complexity, however I'm sure others would like this even more than me. Very nice wine here.

Very focused on bright aromas of dark plum, dark cherry, purple licorice, anise, toasted hazelnut, purple flowers, blueberry jam and high quality oak that is nicely integrating. The palate displays soft, sweet tannin, and again is lower in acid. Finish is medium in length built on the bright purple and blue licroice tinged fruit.