Beautiful nose with dark cherries, raisins, spicy acohol notes. Beautiful acidity, with round palate that is minerally tinged. Plums, cherries, forest floor - complex but still bright - with medium tannins and nice notes of oak on the long ending. A complex, still young wine taht will no doubt improve with time but already excellent. I have 4 more bottles I will keep for a few years.
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Unmistakably Syrah on opening, this bottle mellowed toward the sensitive, as opposed to overpowering, side of the grape's tendencies. Decanted several hours before serving, the peppery notes took a while to emerge but the wine always continued to say "Syrah" as opposed to "SYRAH!!!!" A nice complement to roasted beef tenderloin.
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Massive, powerful, concentrated, intense, frightfully tannic and still young. Yet, once you dig your way through its youth, the wine screams to get noticed. The textures are like molten syrah that oozes all over your palate, teeth and gums, staining everything in its path. Extreme patience is required here. Based on previous vintages, this should require, if not demand another 20-25 more years before it sheds its youth, and morphs into the mature stage of life.
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12/2/2023 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful nose with dark cherries, raisins, spicy acohol notes. Beautiful acidity, with round palate that is minerally tinged. Plums, cherries, forest floor - complex but still bright - with medium tannins and nice notes of oak on the long ending. A complex, still young wine taht will no doubt improve with time but already excellent. I have 4 more bottles I will keep for a few years.
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9/4/2023 - M&M Cellars wrote:
Drank with duck at Moli
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12/31/2022 - Trickyone Likes this wine:
Unmistakably Syrah on opening, this bottle mellowed toward the sensitive, as opposed to overpowering, side of the grape's tendencies. Decanted several hours before serving, the peppery notes took a while to emerge but the wine always continued to say "Syrah" as opposed to "SYRAH!!!!" A nice complement to roasted beef tenderloin.
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11/24/2018 - Niagara wrote: 96 Points
Fantastic and really coming into its own. Quite a bit of sediment, so definitely decant. Superior acidity and lush fruit.
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11/30/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
Massive, powerful, concentrated, intense, frightfully tannic and still young. Yet, once you dig your way through its youth, the wine screams to get noticed. The textures are like molten syrah that oozes all over your palate, teeth and gums, staining everything in its path. Extreme patience is required here. Based on previous vintages, this should require, if not demand another 20-25 more years before it sheds its youth, and morphs into the mature stage of life.
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