2006 Alban Vineyards Syrah Seymour's Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 95.2 points

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  12/10/2022 - VinoGeeko Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Serious New World Effort (on steroids). - Decanted 1 hours - before Thanksgiving dinner - and it deserved 3x more time.
  
  I don't even know how this depth and concentration is possible without 200% new oak! And/or 10,000 meters of altitude AND/or dehydrating the grapes to a 1 part skin: to 1 part pulp ratio).
  
  Each glass felt like it had the essence of entire old world wine bottle down to 5 oz. Not for the faint of heart. Next bottle of this, if not going to auction, will be put up next to a ribeye.

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  3/20/2021 - gesusser Likes this wine: 95 Points

  3 hour decant
  Dark dark red
  Most excellent with meatloaf 1st nite and Italian 2nd nite
  Rich long legged Syrah now in its drinking window glad we waited on this

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  10/24/2020 - redknife Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Decanted for 3 1/2 hrs
  First dinner with friends (Jack and company) at my new place. The wine showed beautifully, big but well integrated. Paired excellently with Cajun ribeye

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  3/27/2018 - mclanew wrote: 93 Points

  Massive massive wine with loads of concentration. This just overwhelms the taste buds. It is is a somewhat overwhelming state and either needs a very long decant or a lot more time in the bottle to mellow and flesh out. Black fruit, earth, roasted meats and spice. Long finish. Won’t open another for a few years.

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  2/3/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote:

  Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind (Chicago, IL): Tasted blind. So reductive. Also very jammy. Massive and backward. Not a wine I can enjoy.

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