2016 K Vintners Syrah Rockgarden

Community Tasting Notes (34) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  1/16/2024 - RPerro Likes this wine: 93 Points

  P&P; super-umami flavors, showing coffee, soysauce, brine, and smoked meat, with black berry fruits and hints of oak. Finish is quite savory with loads of bitter dark chocolate. Great stuff, sad it's my last bottle. Drink now - 2031.

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  12/30/2023 - Quaffable Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Delicious! Great balance of fine tannins, enough fruit, full body and not too alcoholic. Took half an hour or so to open up, but then was amazing with my osso buco lamb. Wish I had a case more of it.

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  6/3/2023 - Drbobo Likes this wine: 89 Points

  opened this wine-as I began to wonder about the duration of aging for 'rock' vineyard wines from walla walla. a recent recommendation said to try and consume within 5 years for the basalt rock vineyards.
  I opened the wine, and did not wait for it to air, before my first sip. so at first It tasted like it was nearly too late for consumption. however, in the next hour, it opened up. mild funk on the nose. it has lost its fruit, mostly raisin followed by faint tannin. Luckily not too strong on the tannins. typical syrah spice is also not strongly present, but a faint palate linger.

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  5/19/2023 - mojotojo Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine was a surprise. It wound up being stunning after an inauspicious beginning. It seemed a little out of balance and overly funky when the cork was pulled. There was ample fruit and a nice nose of black berries, smoked meat and the usual spices. But it just wasn't knitted together well. BOY, did that change after about 2 hours. More floral notes and smoky meaty flavors started to erupt in the glass and then, by about the 3rd hour, it developed an intoxicating (see what I did there?) sweetness that lingered and lingered in the finish. An amazing wine that really needed patience, but the payoff was awesome. The team at K did it again. It is drinking nicely now (once you give is the time it deserved) but it has enough structure to last for another decade.

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  3/4/2023 - Ivan T.W. Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Really fascinating - this may be the most savory US wine I've had. Tons of brine, green pepper, campfire ash, leather, with some dried, salted blackberry hidden way, way under all that funk.
  
  Did I like it? Yeah, but I don't know if it's something I'll rush to buy again, and I was the only one among the tasting group who enjoyed it. Probably should have had with food.

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