Community Tasting Notes 17

• texaswinelover wrote:

  May 10, 2021 - My first time to open this wine since release. WOW WOW WOW! I was skeptical of the 98 pts when it was released but this wine is BANGING! 14.3% etoh, deep rich concentrated dark fruit. Typical Cali Syrah notes in spades. Balanced, acidity to spare, wonderful minerality. Clean long finish. Wish I’d opened on a weekend so I could enjoy more thoroughly. Top flight Syrah. Kudos to Joe Donelan.

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• jshufelt wrote: 92 points

  February 9, 2021 - Decanted for an hour before service. In the glass, dark red at the rim, fading quickly to black at the core. On the nose, blackberries, with no sign of aging - aromatically, this could be a barrel sample. On the palate, blackberry liqueur, plums, saline notes, and a faint hint of camphor, with mild tannins on a long fruit-driven finish. This seems to be resolving nicely.

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• brettay wrote: 93 points

  January 1, 2021 - Classic dark brooding Syrah. Roasted meats, dark cherry and blackberry fruit, minerals and graphite. Dark and rich but with an impeccable balance between the fruit and savory elements,

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• tplskylrk wrote:

  June 22, 2019 - P&P. Cold. Cant even describe this nose. Wow....terrior in a glass. So beautiful, delicate, masculine. So much blue fruit, mixed wet stones, rough herbs, earth, blood. Yum. Just want to smell this. The palate is wild. This is in a perfect place, so balanced, so delicious, euthreral.

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• Minnesota wrote: 94 points

  October 29, 2018 - Again screwed up the decant (opened as treat following hours of buckthorn eradication work). Opened up beautifully as night went on. Absolutely will decant next bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Donelan
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Richards Family Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma Coast

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• In Cellars 256 (54%)
• Consumed 217 (46%)

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