Surprisingly light colour for a Syrah (still a saturated red, but not a lot of purple).
Bouquet fills the nose immediately with darkest blackberry and blueberry fruit, which gives way to show black olive and pepper. A little more poking around shows rosemary, black raspberry, and a bit of wet rock.
Palate has good flavour concentration, packed with dark fruit, some redder plum notes (from the grenache?), and a really lovely back end of black olive. This really needed that extra savoury note to add another dimension. Tannins are mostly resolved, maybe a touch of graininess left but not much, with a sinewy texture in the mouth. Length is pretty average.
Overall this is pretty impressive, but a touch too fruit forward. Maybe a few more years in the cellar would have added further complexity.
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5/4/2024 - Ryan8008 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Surprisingly light colour for a Syrah (still a saturated red, but not a lot of purple).
Bouquet fills the nose immediately with darkest blackberry and blueberry fruit, which gives way to show black olive and pepper. A little more poking around shows rosemary, black raspberry, and a bit of wet rock.
Palate has good flavour concentration, packed with dark fruit, some redder plum notes (from the grenache?), and a really lovely back end of black olive. This really needed that extra savoury note to add another dimension. Tannins are mostly resolved, maybe a touch of graininess left but not much, with a sinewy texture in the mouth. Length is pretty average.
Overall this is pretty impressive, but a touch too fruit forward. Maybe a few more years in the cellar would have added further complexity.
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5/31/2020 - Lederhosen Likes this wine: 90 Points
Smells earthy, herbs, dark fruit like plums. Finish had some dark berry flavors, is has mile tannin, I was surprised by how acidic this was too.
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5/24/2020 - NapaInBaltimore Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is awesome!
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