JamesSuckling.com

• By James Suckling
  3/19/2018 (link)

  (K Vintners Syrah Wahluke Slope The Hidden, Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text.

Vinous

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Washington: Various Shades of Hot (Oct 2017), 10/1/2017 (link)

  (K Vintners Syrah The Hidden Northridge Vineyard Washington Red) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull The Deal, The Hidden, And The Klein, 9/10/2017

  (K Vintners Syrah The Hidden) Hello friends. We have small parcels of a trio of rarities from K Vintners’ (or Wines of Substance, as it seems the umbrella company will now be called) recent set of autumn releases. Our K/Substance offers are always feeding frenzies, so let me offer two quick notes: 1. To the best of my knowledge, we have retail dibs on all three of these wines west of the mountains. 2. I suspect we’ll have to under-allocate here, given the parcel sizes, so a quick reminder of our allocation technique: Our allocations favor breadth over depth, so that everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. And our formula for prioritizing allocations includes overall orders, frequency of orders, recency of orders, and list tenure, among other factors. Now, onto the wines: Wine Advocate: Copyrighted material withheld. [Quick context note: we've offered exactly two previous 99pt Advocate wines in Full Pull’s entire existence. One was just a month ago: Sheridan’s 2014 Block 1 Cab; the other six years ago: K Vintners’ 2008 Royal City Syrah. Both were north of $100.] This is 100% Northridge Vineyard Syrah, a wild, special site on the Wahluke Slope, and a rarity because it sits above the Missoula floodline at elevations of 1100’. This means that instead of flood soils, Northridge sits on a thin layer of ancient soils above a base of caliche and basalt. The wine was aged all in large puncheons (60% new) after 48 days on skins and 100% whole cluster/100% native yeast fermentation. Listed alc is 15.0%. Winery notes: The heart of darkness. Layers upon layers of black tea, plum, blackberry and warm sand. All together firm yet yielding with depth that has no bottom. WOW!