2012 Covenant Syrah Landsman

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  8/22/2015 - raccah Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I have to admit, when I opened this bottle I thought it would be like the previous ones, crazy mineral, dirt, no fruit, just classic charcoal and bone licking dry. Well, that is not where the wine is now - now the fruit has emerged and this wine is a real Cali Syrah!
  
  The nose on this wine is purely intoxicating - insane bull ride down main street! The nose starts with intense plum, blue fruit, rose hips, followed by crazy chocolate covered root beer, candied apricot, and the mad sweet spice. The mouth on this full bodied wine is pumping with layers of sweet white fruit, followed by crazy boysenberry jam, blueberry pie, and then blackberry, with a cascade of acid, sweet tannin, and intense sweet spices, cinnamon, and all spice. The finish is long with bitter notes, charcoal, intense sweet fruit, lovely fruit structure, intense candied floral notes, and dirt. BRAVO!!!

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  4/8/2015 - raccah Likes this wine: 91 Points

  The second you pour this wine you hold your breath from the depth of its dark, impenetrable purple color. The wine is more a Rhone wine that a Cali Syrah, with deep rooted mineral, freshly turned earth, slate, rock, and graphite that seems to scream #2 pencil. This turns some wine lovers away, as they want fruit forward wines, but to me this wine screams control, depth, and style.
  
  So, now this wine opens far faster than before. There was no need to decant this wine. With time the wine showed fresh licorice, fresh tilled earth, freshly smoked game, and fresh black and blue fruit. The mouth on this full bodied wine is rich and layered with concentrated blackberry, boysenberry, lovely extraction, sweet cedar, and rich mouth coating tannin that linger long. The finish is long with great mineral, graphite, salty notes, crazy sweet spices, nutmeg, along with watermelon, root beer, intense smoking tobacco, and oriental spices - BRAVO!

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  6/27/2014 - raccah Likes this wine: 91 Points

  The second you pour this wine you hold your breath from the depth of its dark, impenetrable purple color. The wine is more a Rhone wine that a Cali Syrah, with deep rooted mineral, freshly turned earth, slate, rock, and graphite that seems to scream #2 pencil. This turns some wine lovers away, as they want fruit forward wines, but to me this wine screams control, depth, and style.
  
  As I decanted this impenetrable purple colored wine, the decanter screamed with fresh licorice, fresh tilled earth, slight heat, freshly smoked game, and fresh black and blue fruit. The mouth on this full bodied wine is rich and layered with concentrated blackberry, boysenberry, lovely extraction, sweet cedar, and rich mouth coating tannin that linger long. The finish is long with great mineral, graphite, salty notes, crazy sweet spices, nutmeg, along with watermelon, root beer, intense smoking tobacco, and oriental spices - BRAVO!

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