Community Tasting Notes 32

• Senso-beak wrote: 93 points

  July 30, 2021 - Bottle 2667. Opened and poured. A thick morass of sediment clings to all sides. This potent, jammy aioli spreads across the tongue with a heady dose of deep black cherry, raspberry, blackberry and toasty notes. Humid hoisin notes on the nose, with all the aforementioned fruits, and some drying Indian spices. Thick, glyceric, potent, and altogether delightful for this night....alcohol getting integrated ok and not too hot. Certainly showing no signs of slowing down - there is enough here to last 20+ more years. One or two more and will try to hold for another 5-10 years at least.

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• beezer6 wrote: 87 points

  November 8, 2020 - Given this bottle from Michael Browne at the winery in '12.
  Signed at our wedding by guests.
  Let breathe about an hour in the glass. Somewhat muted nose as a whole.
  Dark spice driven red fruit, chocolate covered cherries and a hot finish are what I'm getting.
  Not my favorite bottling from KB. Probably smart they stopped the Syrah bottlings.

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• zinnut wrote: 85 points

  March 28, 2016 - This is very hot. Not pleasant to drink.

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• fdub Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 6, 2015 - Big bold and rich but utterly delicious.

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• Filippo wrote: 90 points

  May 13, 2014 - Overly alcoholic after opening, but then goes back to more normal levels after half an hour of breathing. Ripe red cherries , black fruit, meat and some spices emerge and the wine becomes rounder, and fresher. Still too alcoholic imho, but certainly nice.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Kosta Browne
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Amber Ridge Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Russian River Valley

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• Pending Delivery 2 (0%)
• In Cellars 177 (35%)
• Consumed 333 (65%)

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