Community Tasting Notes 30

• Giggs wrote: 90 points

  April 23, 2024 - Smoked meat, olive juice, a natural freshness to the berry fruit that gives a freshly pressed impression. It's a simple, everyday style yet with surprising nuance and complexity.

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• Adam V Likes this wine: 91 points

  October 15, 2022 - Appearance: Bright purple, almost magenta
  
  Aroma: Kalamata Olives! So much olive on the nose. Smelling past the olives, there is so much more here. Lavender and violet, bacon grease, black pepper, blueberries, even some hints of citrus.
  
  Taste: Light and lean. Very fine, well-integrated tannins. Nice acidity with a long finish. Roasted game meat, moderate blue fruit, black olives.
  
  Another great showing from Pax. This is drinking really well right now but can definitely go for another 5 years or so before any concerns of this dropping off. I’ll also add that I PnP’d for the above notes, but I did double decant the wine since there was a ton of very fine sediment and I had to go out for a few hours. Coming back to it later, the notes are pretty similar but the wine is a bit smoother and the fruit has started to come forward more.

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• GrandeSerataFuori wrote: 86 points

  July 21, 2022 - Old world syrah style for sure. Lean (only 12.6%?) and food friendly. Black pepper, lavender, and cranberry. Better with food. Paired really well with cooked kale (cumin), BBQ tempeh and roasted paprika potatoes. Was lacking some element of freshness.
  
  *This was just stored at my house (not in my cellar) for a year and a half. This certainly could have affected it negatively and I wouldn't be surprised if this scored a point or two higher with proper storage.

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• JackCali wrote: 88 points

  November 13, 2021 - Fairly simplistic dark fruit, Syrah. Not the most interesting

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• Jvanwinkle Likes this wine: 91 points

  October 4, 2021 - Really enjoyed this. Not dark and foreboding as some Syrah can be but still had the lovely olive and other savory notes. Fruit was fresh and at the forefront. Just a lovely bottle that was gone quite quick—will buy more!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Pax
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion North Coast
• Appellation North Coast
• UPC Codes 100000079232, 895958001960, 896452001005

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• Pending Delivery 9 (2%)
• In Cellars 242 (49%)
• Consumed 238 (49%)

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