2013 Gramercy Cellars Syrah Rock Steady

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  2/17/2023 - Ed in Inverness wrote: flawed

  Corked

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  3/28/2021 - LaiJien Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Medium garnet – gorgeous and perfumed nose of violets, funk, earth, smoke, blackberry, pomegranate, and leather; palate adds a very pleasant sweetness, although the wine is dry. Medium acid, medium tannins, 13.7% ABV, medium+ body, medium+ intensity, medium+ finish. Incredibly well balanced and quite complex, this wine just sang. Paired beautifully with buckwheat crepes stuffed with smoked turkey and gruyère cheese, topped with a fried egg.
  
  A Master Tasting Association wine.

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  5/22/2020 - violistus wrote: flawed

  Big fan. I could tell this was a special bottle, but unfortunately it was mostly corked. I say 'mostly' because the stuffing underneath was so pleasurable and vibrant - savory blue plummy fruit, salty brisket, lifted quasi-Viognier-added trebly aromatics - that I struggled through a glass and a half before ultimately succumbing to the wet funky cardboard. Bummer! I've been unlucky, this happens to be my 2nd corked Gramercy bottle. I've got a 2012 in the cellar, and hope it's in good shape!

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  2/22/2020 - Wine Ratings Likes this wine:

  Freshness, intensity, and depth wrapped up in one delicious package! Even at 7 years, this absolutely exploded out of the bottle and didn’t relent until the last drop was gone. That’s not to say it was heavy or overbearing, mind you; far from it, particularly at a very reasonable 13.7%. The wine combines the wicked savouriness of the Rocks district (Oregon side of Walla Walla) with pure, sweet red fruit from Minick Vineyard further north in the Columbia Valley. A perfect balance - silky smooth with just enough acid for extreme drinkability. Intense and complex, yes, but in no way difficult. This was a bottle packed full of all the blueberry, red/black cherry, herbs, salty olives, smoked bacon, and mossy forest one could imagine, providing a long, tantalizing lead-up to the rootbeer/black pepper/szechuan finishing touch.

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  2/9/2020 - Pedroel Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Fabulous. Wish this wasn’t the only one.

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