2014 Mending Wall Petite Sirah Palisades Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91 points

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  3/14/2024 - RichEB1 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  You always know exactly what you're going to get with a Mending Wall PS. A big, tasty, Inky black/glass-staining mouth full of goodness that somehow manages to never cross the line of being 'over the top'.
  Not the most complex wine ever but its delicious, and hits the spot when you're in the mood.

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  8/26/2022 - td1836 wrote: 91 Points

  Probably the darkest wine I’ve ever had. Deep blackberry, black current, licorice, and dark chocolate. This is a huge, thick wine. Round and soft tannins, alcohol is a tad high but not out of place in the context of the fruit. There is a time and place for a wine like this, but only every once in a while for me.

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  3/5/2022 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  My final bottle, I opened this 6 hours ago. I did not decant it out of the bottle but just stood it up with the cork out. This remains a dark, big shouldered wine, flush with dark, rich fruit. There is a molten quality here, like a dark licorice was melted down over charcoal, dark blackberry and tar. With the alcohol (labeled at 14.7%), after a few ounces tasting this I can feel it warming up my stomach and the density of the wine's dark chocolate and creosote still coating my palate. Over the years, and I used to drink a lot of Petite Syrah, I have lost the taste for it. The higher alcohol and palate density is just not pleasing to me anymore. With that said, there is nothing wrong with this wine and in fact, there is a section of wine drinkers that will like this wine for the power, darkness and big fruit. And to anyone that says you gotta keep aging this stuff, respectfully that's not accurate, at least for me. Yeah, with a six hour slow ox without the cork, there is no blocking tannin that would stop this from being enjoyed. I ask the question then...what does one get by letting this wine, now already almost 8 years old, continue to age and soften when it's softened now? The fruit will soften but the alcohol signature is not going to go away so why not enjoy this wine now, when the fruit and intensity is firing on all cylinders?

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  10/25/2021 - Mr T wrote:

  big ripe beast. Folks loved it, especially later in dinner and after the Alban Reva

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  6/6/2021 - RichEB1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Crazy, crazy dark, deep and absolutley delicious. So good right now but plenty of tannins and more than enough fruit to age well for a long, long time. Great stuff!

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