I love this wine. It’s seamless, fully integrated, and opens to meat, asphalt, and tasty, black and blue fruit notes over gravelly minerality and a suggestion of milk chocolate and black tea on the back end. Such a lovely articulation of place. The only shame is that only 298 cases were produced.
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Consistent with prior notes. Complex, balanced. Dark fruit shows more than pepper and savory notes. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves. Tremendous value.
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Named after the famous hill in Cote Rotie, due to its blend of 95% Syrah and 5% Viognier, there is a lot of ripe black raspberry, pepper, jam, fennel and vanilla bean characteristics in this round, open style of California Syrah.
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Jammy blueberry, coffee and a hint of fig and brown sugar. Opened this 2 days ago and enjoyed it the first evening as well when it as drier with cherry flavor and a little stemmy.
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11/30/2018 - Baron Slick wrote: 92 Points
I love this wine. It’s seamless, fully integrated, and opens to meat, asphalt, and tasty, black and blue fruit notes over gravelly minerality and a suggestion of milk chocolate and black tea on the back end. Such a lovely articulation of place. The only shame is that only 298 cases were produced.
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4/9/2016 - BillyRayValentine Likes this wine: 89 Points
Interestingly more fruit forward than prior bottles. Still nice. Ready to drink.
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9/27/2015 - BillyRayValentine wrote: 91 Points
Consistent with prior notes. Complex, balanced. Dark fruit shows more than pepper and savory notes. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves. Tremendous value.
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5/25/2015 - BillyRayValentine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Similar to prior notes. This wine keeps getting better. Unbelievable QPR.
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12/26/2014 - BillyRayValentine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Agree with Jeff Leve's tasting note. Cote Rotie without the funk. Excellent value.
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3/11/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points
Named after the famous hill in Cote Rotie, due to its blend of 95% Syrah and 5% Viognier, there is a lot of ripe black raspberry, pepper, jam, fennel and vanilla bean characteristics in this round, open style of California Syrah.
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3/21/2013 - spo Likes this wine: 88 Points
Jammy blueberry, coffee and a hint of fig and brown sugar. Opened this 2 days ago and enjoyed it the first evening as well when it as drier with cherry flavor and a little stemmy.
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