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2017 Zeppelin Winery Syrah Colossus
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Winemaker Notes
All Westside fruit, mainly from what I see when I lift my gaze from this damn laptop, the Hill of Graceland, all clone 877. However, about 20% was, er, gleaned at over 30 brix from a Famous Vineyard more than a biodynamic potato cannon’s range from here: it had the wrong aura, someone thought. (Someone who was a marketer, not a grower or winemaker.) All open-top box fermented, labouriously punched out - er, down. Cthulhu-deep ripe black fruit, Romanian oak, and a very full palate with not mean, but moderate tannins. The high alcohol is balanced by the fruit, tannin, and acidity as well as naturally produced glycerol and unfermentable sugars. Yes, it will age: the 2012, for example, is quite a bit better than it was upon release, and it was Monumental then.
Specs
Alcohol: 17.0%
pH: 3.60
TA: 6.6 g/l
RS: 0.23%
All Westside fruit, mainly from what I see when I lift my gaze from this damn laptop, the Hill of Graceland, all clone 877. However, about 20% was, er, gleaned at over 30 brix from a Famous Vineyard more than a biodynamic potato cannon’s range from here: it had the wrong aura, someone thought. (Someone who was a marketer, not a grower or winemaker.) All open-top box fermented, labouriously punched out - er, down. Cthulhu-deep ripe black fruit, Romanian oak, and a very full palate with not mean, but moderate tannins. The high alcohol is balanced by the fruit, tannin, and acidity as well as naturally produced glycerol and unfermentable sugars. Yes, it will age: the 2012, for example, is quite a bit better than it was upon release, and it was Monumental then.
Specs
Alcohol: 17.0%
pH: 3.60
TA: 6.6 g/l
RS: 0.23%