2010 Tablas Creek Syrah

Community Tasting Notes (34) Avg Score: 90.0 points

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  10/21/2023 - drrobvino wrote: 89 Points

  Popped and poured.
  This one seemed a bit OTH for my liking, with some stewed tomato flavors and burnt rubber.
  A bit oxidized, the bottle was still drinkable but the wine seemed advanced. Very resolved tannins and not enough acidity to support the fruit.
  Drink this one up.
  
  Revisited an hour or two later, and this wine seemed more full, more complete. Interestingly enough, I enjoyed the last glass the most.
  Decant this one for an hour and I think you may be impressed.

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  4/23/2022 - tward Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Fantastic wine. I've noted before with some of Tablas's earlier Syrah renditions that with age they sing like Northern Rhones, not Tablas's Southern CdP inspiration. This was another one. I wish I were more finely delineated between the N. Rhone AOCs, but if forced to choose I'd be bold and say Hermitage. This was so classic, smoky, bacon, meaty, ripe plumb, roasted dark fruit, some spice, a feral quality, aging meat, a touch of black olive and turned earth. I will say that the finish was not particularly long, but it has an elegant fade. Maybe my old world reference isn't correctly aligned, but this was a fantastic wine I'd put blind in a lineup for sure.
  
  Had with steak frites using a cast iron zabuton steak rare. Nice pairing.
  
  Note: Store for some of its life in ideal 55 F conditions and some of it's life in dark conditions with seasonal fluctuations between low-mid-50s and mid-60s F.
  
  14.5% abv. Zero heat, none.

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  11/15/2021 - wilypod Likes this wine: 88 Points

  In very good shape, but the youthful black fruits are on the downward slope. I rarely enjoy Syrah without some age as its youthful structural elements of pepperiness, green olive, and tannins can give me indigestion. Those elements have been tamed in this still substantial Syrah, making it quite balanced and drinkable but for my palate not quite delicious -- lacks any sort of berry vibrancy.

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  12/22/2020 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drinking beautifully right now. All the rough edges of a young syrah are gone. 2 hour decant. Tannins are totally integrated.

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  12/5/2020 - brinko99 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Really nice showing with savory black fruits integrated into the backbone of leather and muddled herb. Opened up greatly in the glass but what remained the next day had fully fallen apart with air.

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