- 90
- points
- The Wine Advocate
- 91
- points
Editor's Choice - Wine Enthusiast
- Blend
- 97% Syrah
1.5% Grenache
1.5% Viognier - Total Acidity
- 0.61 g/100mL
- pH
- 3.78
- Alcohol
- 14.2%
- Barrel Aging
- 50% French oak
50% American oak
2006 vintage
2006 vintage
2006 ReserveSyrah
"This Rhoné style Syrah includes a touch of Viognier and Grenache, delivering aromatics of slight spice, white pepper, blueberry and sweet orange peel. Mouth-filling flavors of dark chocolate with hints of roasted coffee bean round out the notes of fruit and oak and lead to a distinctive blueberry-raspberry finish." Ray Einberger, Winemakers
Grapes were destemmed and crushed with 20% whole berries remaining.
Syrah co-fermented with 1.5 % whole berry Viognier (for aromatics) in open-top fermenters with twice-daily pumpovers, or in stainless steel fermenters with punch downs four times daily. Grenache was blended to soften the wine and enhance the mouthfeel.
Lots were blended and placed in half new French and half new American oak barrels for malolactic fermentation.
The wine was racked by gravity flow at three month intervals during its 20 months in barrels.
