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• Wine Gombie Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 26, 2020 - Upon initial opening: Holy Crap 3.0! Stone fruit and cherries on the forefront! We love the hints of pepper that envelope the apricot and prune aromas that come to a vanilla-leather finish. Smelled also of alcohol.
  
  Color: A jeweler’s rouge. It’s like a dark clay red with fading edges.
  
  Decanted for about 2 hours, which was not enough time for this big boy.
  
  Nose: A pretty healthy and vibrant nose after all of these years. Those green and black pepper smells are still prominent but have softened significantly. The sense of terroir is now more present than in the past, too. Cherry bunches and ripe stone fruit are present with apricot on the end. We are kind of getting a cross between plum and a ripe blackberry with a prune quality and a hint of wild mint that you just picked from somewhere in the backyard. Though you can still smell the alcohol, it’s just not in your face like the initial opening. That helps make way for the subtle leather and chocolate way off in the background.
  
  Taste: This wine is still trying to hold on to its tannins. This wine still has great depth and complexity for being 10 years old. The full flavor spectrum of this wine shows blackberry, raisin, a cocoa chocolate with a sense of almost a caramelized vanilla crème brulèe quality in the aftertaste. Now this vanilla is a creamy style of vanilla, not a custard kind of vanilla. This wine still has a solid backbone and is trying to hang onto its youth with solid tannins. This wine still can use some more time to chillax in its bottle. Maybe until 2025?

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• PDX-S wrote:

  February 6, 2020 - Been hanging in to this for a number of years, looking for the right occasion and a dear friend’s new job qualifies beautifully.
  
  As others have noted, this is as dark as bruised midnight. Aromatically insistent, overt black and blue fruits mingle with baking spices, a touch of plumminess, with maybe a hint of balsamic and soy creeping into the mix.
  
  Fine grained tannins give a bit of texture to the smooth entry as ripe dark fruits and spice bombard the palate, acid keeping everything from getting out of hand.
  
  It is a robust drink, clocking in with a viscous tenacity and flavor intensity that suggests the ripeness of the stated 16.19% abc.
  
  Still, for all of that being the opposite of what I traditionally look for in wine, I enjoyed it immensely.
  
  Possibly the history with the producer, the investment in waiting so long, or the occasion itself, either way... a fitting celebratory offering.

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• fitchbuck Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 24, 2019 - This wine is just stupid-big. Bordering on completely black; so viscous it took a good 2+ minutes to get thru bottle into decanter.
  Even with the splash decant, this was nowhere ready to go out of the gate, very imbalanced. Harsh with dark fruits, acid that punched you in the throat. Pecked at it for awhile, and it slowly started to lose its cloying traits [some, not all] to reveal dark cherry, rubber, blood, leather, plum, alcohol, spices. Reminds me of a few Behrens I've had, most notably the Chien Lunatique. Snagged for under 15 bones, so that helps. But otherwise hard to score, as this was all over the map. 87-93

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• joraesque wrote: 89 points

  November 14, 2017 - 88-89

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• joraesque wrote: 91 points

  November 14, 2017 - The Magnum showed fresher than the 750ml bottling, exhibiting more jammy fruit at first, and less balsamic vinaigrette.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Scholium Project
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Androkteinos
• Vineyard Hudson Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Consumed 66 (56%)

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