2014 Nicora Syrah Slide Hill Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  3/7/2024 - travelme Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Another great bottle of Nicora. On the pop and pour, it was a little tightly wound but as it unwinded, it became a beautiful nicely middle aged Syrah that paired nicely with a porterhouse steak 🥩
  
  A great perfectly aged Syrah and my lone bottle of this wine. 🍷 I would drink the bottle now if I had any additional bottles.

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  3/27/2023 - FlyPig Does not like this wine: 84 Points

  Stewed amarone - more like port than Syrah at this point. Probably near its shelf life naturally, but not the first Nicora I’ve opened where the alcohol dominated and the fruit was stewed. It’s a shame, because I’ve had many of these that were great, but too many that couldn’t hold the style. Stored in ideal conditions since release.

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  2/18/2022 - Cabernet4me2 wrote:

  If Rating would have given a 90-91 but not fair to rate as truly believe this needed a nice decant to show well!
  
  Think this '14 still needed a few more years, as even though it was very good, was just coming around 4 hours after opening!!
  
  We really should have given this a decant, but was at an impromptu afternoon lunch with no decanter.
  
  The wine seemed a bit primary at opening, with those dark black fruits and meaty quality very subdued in the back, but was very balanced and enjoyable. Saw a previous comment, not sure if I would call this Hedonistic Syrah, definitely a Cali style, but far from over the top.
  
  Was my last, and if you have any, IMHO still plenty of life left in this bottle!!

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  10/20/2021 - HandmadeHomemade Does not like this wine:

  Picked up in a wine store club shipment. Not suiting to my taste at all. The 15% alc/vol was quite perceptible- full body, just short of Port; and it feels like the winemaking team at Nicora was striving for just that- big, bold, lush wine. In both the mouth and nose: huge, full bodied, high glycol-late pick fruit- not getting any burnt fruit, raisin notes, which is a relief. The booziness overrides everything, really- it's really quite distracting. New oak/vanillin, black fruit compote topped with dark berry liqueur and syrupy in the mouth and nose, some gritty fresh asphalt earthiness on the finish, very dense and chewy- loads of texture here. Maybe a day or two of air will let this beast shed some of that booziness and allow the wine to shine through- still this is a monster of a wine. If not, into the port glasses it goes as an after dinner sipper.
  
  For now, and the $55 I paid- I am disappointed. However, that $55 is invested fully into a style that I do not appreciate. I am just not a fan of these super hedonistic wines that I believe push the boundary too far. I do not believe this wine represents a sense of place- rather, it is manufactured into existence by design. It's a party wine, and this party is not for me.
  
  Edited note as the review prior was just a mean, shitty thing to say.

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  6/14/2021 - joet626 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  very good. Dark purple color. Nice tar and leather notes. Delicious

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