Rapidly hitting the end of its lifespan. When first opened, there's rich aroma of black fruit (blackberry, fig), black olive, leather and game. The same notes carry through on the palate, although the finish fades quickly. However, starting an hour or so after opening, the fruit and primary flavors mostly disappear, leaving only acid, some barrel and aging notes, and tannin (granted, nicely velvety tannins). Drink any remaining bottles quickly - both in terms of how soon after opening and in terms of the calendar.
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Medium garnet and ruby red. Layered nose with olives, dried red berries and a bit of leather. Medium tannins (5/10) with a medium body. Dark plums on the palate with olive tapenade, savory herbs and bramble berries. Medium plus finish. Drink now.
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Really nice right now and the last couple notes do it well, though I didn't find the extraction noteable. Nice value on the sub-$20 close out. Seems like it has years left in it if properly stored.
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Dark in color, shows very little signs of it's age. The nose was very pretty, red and black fruit and a hint of smoke. Slight black pepper as well, but very much in the background. On the palate the fruit is surprisingly alive, taste much younger than it is. Bright blackberry, raspberry and a touch of plum. Light on it's feet, with medium tannin and elevated acidity. I love this style of Syrah!
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Dark claret colour. Dark berries, oak aroma with what seemed best described as a very slight vinegary smell. A little tight and missing a little the required fruit. But maybe due to only taking one glass via Coravin, tonight I will open it up fully.
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Served alongside the 2008 Chave St. Joseph, this was initially the leaner of the two wines. 24 hours of air did unfurl more fruit, but it stayed on the cool, lean side. Blackberry complimented leather, violet and roasted meat in a firmly acidic framework. Given the need for significant air to show its best side, I would advise waiting longer than I did.
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Even at almost 10 years, this is still a wine that I thought vastly improved overnight. I think day 1 I would have given this a 90, but day 2 the nose pushed this wine to a 92. So I balanced it for my score. Sitting here smelling it now its got meaty notes, some smoke, strawberry, some wild cherry, and pepper. a great wine for blind tasting, everything you want from Syrah. Heads up: a ton of sediment in this bottle. decant this and still give it plenty of air.
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Decanted based on other notes - thank you. Very dark color. Meaty dark cherry aromas with a little heat. Consistent flavors with an earthy finish. Decent acidity for food.
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Fascinating wine. Strong syrah markers (berries, a savory undercurrent, some smoke) leavened with a certain wildness. Still in possession of plenty of acidic zip at 9 years old. Tannins well integrated though still present. This really benefited from time in the decanter and was at its best with food. Well worth the $18 paid.
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Pnp. Incredible amount of sediment attached to the walls of the bottle. Strawberry and olive brine. Tastes like might have been co-fermented with a bit of viognier. Very similar to a rocks syrah from Walla Walla. Not for everyone but I like it.
Day two- didnt hold up.. much more fruit front and center and less of the Briney notes from last night. Interesting.
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Last bottle, consumed over three nights and showed best on the final night. This wine opens kind of tight and needs some air to unspool a bit. It is a very savory wine and the fruit leans to black cherry and cassis, with quite of a bit of acidity. I liked the savory black olive quality this presents, but I think many drinkers may want more fruit. For the price point, I think this was ultimately a pretty interesting wine.
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Drank this over the last 2 nights, a bottle I elected to not finish. Based on my last note from 2012, when I liked the bottle much more then, I just find the wine now too much of competing forces. On one hand, the mix of blue and red fruit that is moderately tart, and then the mix of savory that comes via pepper, rosemary and the impact of the whole cluster and style. It just comes off as clashing to me. Maybe it's my mood from the election...who knows.
A great compromise between traditional Northern Rhone and New World syrah; The nose has lots of savory tones, specifically olive tapenade and pepper, while the palate has some dense red fruits that remind me more of California; In a great spot right now, although should hold for several more years
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A Syrah Friday at Domaine (Domaine Wine Storage, Chicago IL): Nose: The nose evokes the Northern Rhone with black olives, black cherries, black pepper, red and black currants, and some smoke tones. There is a laid back quality to the fruit with a old world sensibility at the same time.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium acidity and youthful tannins. The structure is certainly there, but it isn't too overpowering with black olives, black cherries, black pepper, with red and black currants on the back end.
Overall: This is a gorgeous cool-climate syrah from California. This shows off the best of both sides with one foot rooted in California and the other foot rooted in the Northern Rhone.
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Unfiltered dark complexion and savory aroma of green olive tapenade. Similar flavors, with a little black pepper as well. Drinking great right now with toned down tannins and a clean finish.
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Beautiful engaging bouquet. There's fresh black pepper, a very savory note, and an herb-sage rub. The palate shows cool fruit, minerals, it is nicely tangy and herbal. Northern Rhone in style, without quite as much earth and savage. This goes down easily with a light-bodied feel and a highly manageable 12.6 alcohol A little bitter right now on the end, it should improve in the cellar, but wide open today nonetheless.
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I was excited to try this wine based on all the positive reviews. Darker garnet colour. Nose and palate were very sulphury and I suspect that there were some major reduction issues here. You could detect the Syrah qualities beneath the struck match flavours, but only barely. Disappointing. May have to give this wine another try in the future.
I have to think this wine is really going to be something in a few years, but I may never know since it's just so damn drinkable right now. The thing that surprises me about this wine, vintage after vintage, is how much is densely packed into a medium bodied wine- like a welterweight boxer. Right now the dark fruit takes the lead, supported by terrific olive/brine/leather/game/meat underpinnings; I imagine in a few more years the savory and the fruit will settle into something more than the parts are right now. Better after a couple hours in the decanter and fantastic with food.
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I have drunk 2 of my 3 bottles of this, and will now sit on my 3rd!
Unfiltered inky dark purple color Nose of olive brine, saline, smoked meat, earth In the mouth: meaty, tart black raspberry, black fruit, earthy notes.
This is a young wine that will benefit from more bottle time. I doubt it sees much new wood, but for some reason, 2x now, after a bit of aeration, I detect some, that dissipates next day. Odd.
Big nose of blackberry, bacon and black licorice. Kind of primary tart blackberry on the palate with some of that licorice hanging in. In a good way though. Real tasty juice in the crowd pleaser realm. Finishes with some pepper, tart fruit and soft tannins. Hasn't really changed much since release. Well probably drink the remaining 3 bottles before summer arrives.
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First bottle since tasting it with Pax at the winery and it did not disappoint. Earthy, meaty, fruity with a nice acidic zing all while being light bodied.
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Meat and leather on the nose, with roasted herbs and dark fruit, some lavender, and a touch of pepper at the end. Smooth and rich on the palate, with leather and roasted herbs, some meat juice and dark fruit on the mid-palate, and a good spicy finish.
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This was a pop n pour. Started out a bit tight and angular with grippy tannins so while it aired I did a little blending experiment. I had a bottle of Copain Viognier open so I added a touch to my glass of Wind Gap and it rounded out and the tannins smoothed out almost instantaneously. After we drank through the first pour we stuck with the Syrah. It really came around quite quickly. The last pour was at maybe hour 3. The nose was loaded with spice, earthy savory goodness and blue fruit. Tart and savory through the palate with a creamy mouth and subdued tannins on the long finish. I'm finding this to be a real bargain buy that I can enjoy while I wait for the SVDs to come around. Very well done!
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Had this at the winery last week and it is a fantastic example of a cool climate syrah handled with a light tough. Full of tart fruits, pepper and earthy goodness.
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No way this wine can be considered thin, unless your context is full throttle Aussie Shiraz. This is meaty, bloody and full of black fruit. It is also well balanced, and seems likle it can profit from somee age.
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Looks like I am 3rd in on this wine. My bottle has been open for about 2 days and I form this note from that amount of aeration. Listed alc of 12.6%. Medium dark in color, somewhere middle ground between the rose to black spectrum. Lots of cracked pepper, aromatic spice in both the bouquet and palate. The palate is medium weight but deceptive too, as it shows a creamy edge that gives it texture. The fruit here is mainly red, ranging from a hard rasberry candy, sweet bright cherry and shades of blue. The stem inclusion (not sure of the percentage) adds an herbal edge that is buffered by a tangy acidity that shows in the finish, which closes with the sauvage, whole cluster influence. This is squarely cool climate in tone and style but not so much to leave an austere impression. To be clear, this wine will not suit those who prefer the richer, riper style but for those (like me) who have preference for wines in this style spectrum, this works for me.
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Two hour decant. Initially, gorgeous hickory smoke, bacon and blackcurrant/blackberry on the nose. Palate maybe slightly less vibrant but still a lovely smoky/meaty/fruity dynamism. Wine has a smooth, refined, silky mouth feel. After an hour or so the hickory/bacon receded a little bit and dark fruits/licorice was more in evidence. Delicious wine with a lot of depth and dynamism, and looking forward to revisiting the bottle tomorrow. 12.6% abv.
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9/27/2020 - stvjackson wrote: 87 Points
Rapidly hitting the end of its lifespan. When first opened, there's rich aroma of black fruit (blackberry, fig), black olive, leather and game. The same notes carry through on the palate, although the finish fades quickly. However, starting an hour or so after opening, the fruit and primary flavors mostly disappear, leaving only acid, some barrel and aging notes, and tannin (granted, nicely velvety tannins). Drink any remaining bottles quickly - both in terms of how soon after opening and in terms of the calendar.
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6/19/2020 - Millennial Drinkers wrote: 90 Points
Medium garnet and ruby red. Layered nose with olives, dried red berries and a bit of leather. Medium tannins (5/10) with a medium body. Dark plums on the palate with olive tapenade, savory herbs and bramble berries. Medium plus finish. Drink now.
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12/19/2019 - Rico100 wrote: 88 Points
Too acidic
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12/7/2019 - tward Likes this wine:
Really nice right now and the last couple notes do it well, though I didn't find the extraction noteable. Nice value on the sub-$20 close out. Seems like it has years left in it if properly stored.
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12/2/2019 - kronfeld wrote: 89 Points
Light-swallowing purple; jammy nose; raw, extracted black fruit. Short finish. Lots of sediment. Complex, enjoyable. Great QPR.
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10/27/2019 - kdubler wrote:
Dark in color, shows very little signs of it's age. The nose was very pretty, red and black fruit and a hint of smoke. Slight black pepper as well, but very much in the background. On the palate the fruit is surprisingly alive, taste much younger than it is. Bright blackberry, raspberry and a touch of plum. Light on it's feet, with medium tannin and elevated acidity. I love this style of Syrah!
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10/5/2019 - dmitchell4 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drinking beautifully
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5/11/2019 - rtewh wrote: 91 Points
Great wine at the discount price. Lots of dark fruit. It's a bigger wine, ripe but very well balanced. Nice oak/leather earthy structure.
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3/13/2019 - WhatsSamSipping Likes this wine:
Decanted for two hours.
Right on point. While calling it "incredibly textbook" might sound like this wine is boring, it is not. Bursting dark fruit, meat, smoke, and violets.
Wish I had a few more bottles to have grade A example of Syrah in my back pocket.
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3/9/2019 - battytaxicab Does not like this wine:
Past it’s best. Arrived too late from garagiste, needed to be drunk prior to 2018
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2/11/2019 - toddvh Likes this wine: 89 Points
Decanted about 3 hours before consuming, I'm glad I did this.
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1/21/2019 - brianmik wrote:
Olives and cured meat aroma with a bit of salinity on the palate.
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1/3/2019 - battytaxicab wrote: 88 Points
Dark claret colour. Dark berries, oak aroma with what seemed best described as a very slight vinegary smell. A little tight and missing a little the required fruit. But maybe due to only taking one glass via Coravin, tonight I will open it up fully.
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12/12/2018 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Served alongside the 2008 Chave St. Joseph, this was initially the leaner of the two wines. 24 hours of air did unfurl more fruit, but it stayed on the cool, lean side. Blackberry complimented leather, violet and roasted meat in a firmly acidic framework. Given the need for significant air to show its best side, I would advise waiting longer than I did.
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12/8/2018 - mattstolz11 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Even at almost 10 years, this is still a wine that I thought vastly improved overnight. I think day 1 I would have given this a 90, but day 2 the nose pushed this wine to a 92. So I balanced it for my score. Sitting here smelling it now its got meaty notes, some smoke, strawberry, some wild cherry, and pepper. a great wine for blind tasting, everything you want from Syrah. Heads up: a ton of sediment in this bottle. decant this and still give it plenty of air.
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12/7/2018 - davidspieker wrote: 89 Points
Decant a must. Dark red and a bit muddy in color. Musty cellar aroma. Cutting cherry and cranberry flavors with an earthy, meaty lingering finish.
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11/26/2018 - davidspieker wrote: 88 Points
Decanted based on other notes - thank you. Very dark color. Meaty dark cherry aromas with a little heat. Consistent flavors with an earthy finish. Decent acidity for food.
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11/19/2018 - ppearson9 wrote: 90 Points
Good for $20 or less. Lotta sediment.
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11/10/2018 - Nojomoschwa Likes this wine: 89 Points
Very nice Syrah thought not remarkable. Great deal for the maturity on Garagiste for under $18.
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10/18/2018 - SnowMeadow Likes this wine: 91 Points
Fascinating wine. Strong syrah markers (berries, a savory undercurrent, some smoke) leavened with a certain wildness. Still in possession of plenty of acidic zip at 9 years old. Tannins well integrated though still present. This really benefited from time in the decanter and was at its best with food. Well worth the $18 paid.
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10/7/2018 - Clark W Griswold Likes this wine: 88 Points
Pnp. Incredible amount of sediment attached to the walls of the bottle. Strawberry and olive brine. Tastes like might have been co-fermented with a bit of viognier. Very similar to a rocks syrah from Walla Walla. Not for everyone but I like it.
Day two- didnt hold up.. much more fruit front and center and less of the Briney notes from last night. Interesting.
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11/18/2016 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine:
Last bottle, consumed over three nights and showed best on the final night. This wine opens kind of tight and needs some air to unspool a bit. It is a very savory wine and the fruit leans to black cherry and cassis, with quite of a bit of acidity. I liked the savory black olive quality this presents, but I think many drinkers may want more fruit. For the price point, I think this was ultimately a pretty interesting wine.
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10/4/2016 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Drank this over the last 2 nights, a bottle I elected to not finish. Based on my last note from 2012, when I liked the bottle much more then, I just find the wine now too much of competing forces. On one hand, the mix of blue and red fruit that is moderately tart, and then the mix of savory that comes via pepper, rosemary and the impact of the whole cluster and style. It just comes off as clashing to me. Maybe it's my mood from the election...who knows.
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7/4/2016 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine: 89 Points
This was good, but not particularly noteworthy. A little funk on the nose and smell of dark berries. Good balance but not a particularly long finish.
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9/25/2015 - eluebchow wrote: 90 Points
Consistent with previous note; Great balance of rich California fruit and savory. earthy elements
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7/14/2015 - eluebchow wrote: 92 Points
A great compromise between traditional Northern Rhone and New World syrah; The nose has lots of savory tones, specifically olive tapenade and pepper, while the palate has some dense red fruits that remind me more of California; In a great spot right now, although should hold for several more years
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4/12/2015 - Minnesota wrote: 91 Points
Ripe fruit balanced with soft tannins, seems could tolerate more years of cellaring with no ill effects. Unfortunately, our last bottle.
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11/24/2014 - brianmik wrote:
On the initial nose, lots of green olive, but after some air, red and black currant aroma as well. Everything's really balancing right now.
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11/16/2014 - pjhr Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tasty young syrah with whole stem fermentation. Easily approachable
with a bit of air.
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10/20/2014 - rplumbo Likes this wine:
Loved. No rush. These are holding a-okay!
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8/15/2014 - KeithAkers wrote: 91 Points
A Syrah Friday at Domaine (Domaine Wine Storage, Chicago IL): Nose: The nose evokes the Northern Rhone with black olives, black cherries, black pepper, red and black currants, and some smoke tones. There is a laid back quality to the fruit with a old world sensibility at the same time.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium acidity and youthful tannins. The structure is certainly there, but it isn't too overpowering with black olives, black cherries, black pepper, with red and black currants on the back end.
Overall: This is a gorgeous cool-climate syrah from California. This shows off the best of both sides with one foot rooted in California and the other foot rooted in the Northern Rhone.
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4/5/2014 - brianmik wrote:
Unfiltered dark complexion and savory aroma of green olive tapenade. Similar flavors, with a little black pepper as well. Drinking great right now with toned down tannins and a clean finish.
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12/27/2013 - blanquito wrote: 91 Points
Beautiful engaging bouquet. There's fresh black pepper, a very savory note, and an herb-sage rub. The palate shows cool fruit, minerals, it is nicely tangy and herbal. Northern Rhone in style, without quite as much earth and savage. This goes down easily with a light-bodied feel and a highly manageable 12.6 alcohol A little bitter right now on the end, it should improve in the cellar, but wide open today nonetheless.
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12/16/2013 - 560 B&W wrote: 92 Points
Good on opening; great after 4 days sealed.
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11/16/2013 - MusignyBlanc wrote: 88 Points
Acid on the nose. Very fragrant. Medium-minus bodied. A bit thin/flat on the mid palate. Nice acid on the medium finish.
A very nice middleweight wine with great acidic verve. Great aromatics.
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3/27/2013 - Kitura wrote: flawed
I was excited to try this wine based on all the positive reviews. Darker garnet colour. Nose and palate were very sulphury and I suspect that there were some major reduction issues here. You could detect the Syrah qualities beneath the struck match flavours, but only barely. Disappointing. May have to give this wine another try in the future.
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1/31/2013 - stubbie999 Likes this wine:
I have to think this wine is really going to be something in a few years, but I may never know since it's just so damn drinkable right now. The thing that surprises me about this wine, vintage after vintage, is how much is densely packed into a medium bodied wine- like a welterweight boxer. Right now the dark fruit takes the lead, supported by terrific olive/brine/leather/game/meat underpinnings; I imagine in a few more years the savory and the fruit will settle into something more than the parts are right now. Better after a couple hours in the decanter and fantastic with food.
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1/12/2013 - SonomaWilliam wrote: 91 Points
I have drunk 2 of my 3 bottles of this, and will now sit on my 3rd!
Unfiltered inky dark purple color
Nose of olive brine, saline, smoked meat, earth
In the mouth: meaty, tart black raspberry, black fruit, earthy notes.
This is a young wine that will benefit from more bottle time.
I doubt it sees much new wood, but for some reason, 2x now, after a bit
of aeration, I detect some, that dissipates next day. Odd.
If there is any left for sale, buy & hold.
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12/27/2012 - Matt T wrote: 90 Points
Very interesting syrah with aggressive pepper and earth right off the bat. Good acid and medium-length finish makes this an ideal food wine.
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12/10/2012 - Michael Davidson wrote:
Drank over the course of three nights, and noticed no fall-off over that time.
Meatier and more savory than I was expecting, but still with great acidity and dark fruits. Very well balanced. Excellent syrah.
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11/26/2012 - bullmrkt Likes this wine: 91 Points
Great nose, well balanced palate...even if a bit simple. I hope i come across more Californian wines with this kind of restraint and elegance.
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11/24/2012 - LFCHALA Likes this wine: 91 Points
Drunk at Tobolabampo, a mexican restaurant at Chicago. This wine (tiny production) is tasteful, but very young. Wait more 4 years.
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11/24/2012 - River Rat wrote:
Big nose of blackberry, bacon and black licorice. Kind of primary tart blackberry on the palate with some of that licorice hanging in. In a good way though. Real tasty juice in the crowd pleaser realm.
Finishes with some pepper, tart fruit and soft tannins. Hasn't really changed much since release. Well probably drink the remaining 3 bottles before summer arrives.
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11/23/2012 - Michael K. Likes this wine: 89 Points
smoke, olive, dark fruit. Mostly savory and mostly fresh. More or less perfect w/ butternut squash soup, amazingly.
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11/16/2012 - CerveloGuy wrote:
First bottle since tasting it with Pax at the winery and it did not disappoint. Earthy, meaty, fruity with a nice acidic zing all while being light bodied.
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10/29/2012 - mikev101 wrote: 85 Points
Mediocre at best...no where close to a $35 bottle....
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6/29/2012 - mmurry Likes this wine: 92 Points
Meat and leather on the nose, with roasted herbs and dark fruit, some lavender, and a touch of pepper at the end. Smooth and rich on the palate, with leather and roasted herbs, some meat juice and dark fruit on the mid-palate, and a good spicy finish.
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6/3/2012 - River Rat wrote:
This was a pop n pour. Started out a bit tight and angular with grippy tannins so while it aired I did a little blending experiment. I had a bottle of Copain Viognier open so I added a touch to my glass of Wind Gap and it rounded out and the tannins smoothed out almost instantaneously.
After we drank through the first pour we stuck with the Syrah. It really came around quite quickly. The last pour was at maybe hour 3. The nose was loaded with spice, earthy savory goodness and blue fruit. Tart and savory through the palate with a creamy mouth and subdued tannins on the long finish. I'm finding this to be a real bargain buy that I can enjoy while I wait for the SVDs to come around. Very well done!
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5/28/2012 - CerveloGuy wrote:
Had this at the winery last week and it is a fantastic example of a cool climate syrah handled with a light tough. Full of tart fruits, pepper and earthy goodness.
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5/27/2012 - Rieslingfan wrote:
No way this wine can be considered thin, unless your context is full throttle Aussie Shiraz. This is meaty, bloody and full of black fruit. It is also well balanced, and seems likle it can profit from somee age.
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5/9/2012 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Looks like I am 3rd in on this wine. My bottle has been open for about 2 days and I form this note from that amount of aeration. Listed alc of 12.6%. Medium dark in color, somewhere middle ground between the rose to black spectrum. Lots of cracked pepper, aromatic spice in both the bouquet and palate. The palate is medium weight but deceptive too, as it shows a creamy edge that gives it texture. The fruit here is mainly red, ranging from a hard rasberry candy, sweet bright cherry and shades of blue. The stem inclusion (not sure of the percentage) adds an herbal edge that is buffered by a tangy acidity that shows in the finish, which closes with the sauvage, whole cluster influence. This is squarely cool climate in tone and style but not so much to leave an austere impression. To be clear, this wine will not suit those who prefer the richer, riper style but for those (like me) who have preference for wines in this style spectrum, this works for me.
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4/14/2012 - theronware wrote: 91 Points
Two hour decant. Initially, gorgeous hickory smoke, bacon and blackcurrant/blackberry on the nose. Palate maybe slightly less vibrant but still a lovely smoky/meaty/fruity dynamism. Wine has a smooth, refined, silky mouth feel. After an hour or so the hickory/bacon receded a little bit and dark fruits/licorice was more in evidence. Delicious wine with a lot of depth and dynamism, and looking forward to revisiting the bottle tomorrow. 12.6% abv.
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1/24/2012 - EMichels wrote: 89 Points
Narrow; Thin fruit
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