2017 Sine Qua Non Syrah The Hated Hunter

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 95.8 points

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  4/5/2024 - Neras Likes this wine: 97 Points

  SQN is something special! I am amazed by the boldness and the lightness within the same wine. Licorice, pepper, blood, wet stone and gentle power.

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  3/23/2024 - KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Spectacular. Deep, complex, rich and smooth. Decanted for 2 hours and it delivered for the rest of the evening!

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  2/3/2024 - hoservin Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Aerated with a Vinturi and decanted for one hour. Nose of blackberry, huckleberry, black plum, bramble, spice, anise and vanilla. Blackberry, blueberry, anise, toasted oak, bramble, spice and ripe tannins on the palate. A very long, layered finish with excellent depth. Full bodied. Served with reverse seared zabuton steak with yakiniku sauce.

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  1/7/2024 - Ampequot Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Picked up at a local grocer, had been hunting a bottle of SQN for a couple of weeks after a good experience at a pairing at Meadowood. Decanted 4 hours at cellar temp and tasted over 3 hours letting it warm to room temp. Definitely improved over the night as secondary notes got stronger and tertiary notes began to appear.
  
  Rich red fruit with blackberry upon open. Notes of leather, loam, shiitake emerged soon after. Began absolutely huge and mellowed out. Tannins softened. As the night went on it came into its own and displayed great balance. Stood up well over that decant, holding up phenomenally next morning.
  
  After this second SQN experience I’ve gotta say I’m pretty bought into the hype. Not quite as tuned to my palate, but still phenomenal. 96

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  12/10/2023 - ERU wrote: 96 Points

  Made a huge meal for my husband’s birthday; beef tenderloin was the star. I was thinking perhaps we could have a Clape to go along with the beef and all the heavy accompaniments. But it’s his birthday, and he said he wanted something, “Huge and with stank.” Now, a Clape can fit this bill, but, really, just, really: If this wasn’t a Sine Qua Non request, then I don’t know what is.
  
  Decanted 3+ hours. I wish we would have gone more, because this improved as the glass got shallower. Pepper, bacon fat, plum compote, and leather from a horse saddle that has been ridden by one hell of a cowboy fills the mouth. First couple of sips the 15.9% alcohol made its presence known, then, poof! was gone.
  
  Thoroughly enjoyed this; wish I had more. Almost gives me the strength to hang on for, oh, 13 to 37 more years until I finally make the SQN mailing list.

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