Fiona Riley

9.1

Nice GSM blend. Great wine with a steak. — 5 months ago

Ellen Clifford

9.1

This 44% Grenache/42% Syrah/14% Mourvèdre is (forgive for the basicness of the word, but it’s true) delicious. One of those blends you really pick up each of the grapes’ best offerings. Plummy dried purple fruit and fresh red plums mingle with black olive, meeting floral hints, all ballasted with earth and minerality. The nose is rather enchanting. The tannin/alcohol/acid balance is appreciated. It is warming, spicy, and lifting, but with saline notes on top of tobacco. And punches WAY over its weight for the price point. — 8 months ago

Steven MacDonald

9.1

Berry fruit, well balanced, reasonably big for a GSM. Nice finish. — 3 years ago

Nicole Ruiz Hudson

8.9

N: tangerine skin, rose hips, peach
P: + watermelon rind w savory herbs, cherry, lemon — 4 years ago

Jeremiah Diaz

9.3

Deep ruby in color; black cherries, raspberries, and baking spices on the nose; medium plus acidity; medium tannins; blackberries, strawberry jam, and black tea with a long finish. Bri says it's ok. I like it. — 6 months ago

Will Stanley

9.4

A doppelgänger for top-drawer modern Châteauneuf, the 2018 The Steading from Torbreck is an immaculate Barossa GSM with quite disarming purity. The nose explodes with blueberry, strawberry, liquorice, Turkish delight, lavender and baking spices, a scent which feels luxurious - like stepping into a five star hotel. The palate is extremely supple, sweet like fruit cake on entry but gradually develops in umami, with some smoked bacon and dried cherry. The tannins are almost imperceptible, as is the alcohol - it checks in at 15% but is deftly handled and there’s no sense of heat whatsoever. This isn’t what I was expecting from this wine, a wine I have fond memories of serving to guests in the restaurant I worked in almost ten years ago. It was a perfect match for braised short rib of beef with Port beef jus, which needed a sweeter style of red (I had considered Bordeaux for this evening). This wine was superb, a pleasant surprise and I’m delighted to have bought this year’s release by the case. — 2 years ago

Jeff Kinney

9.2

Opened up really nice after sitting a bit. Super nice red fruits and leather — 6 months ago

Matt Perlman

9.3

Second to last vintage of this wine that Steve Edmunds produced. It was special before he decided to hang things up and even more so now. Cali GSM with true old world sensibility — 8 months ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.4

2018 vintage. 36 Petite Syrah, 30 Syrah, 22 Mouvèdre, 12 Grenache. Hevvy bod. Just might be the best valued GSM-esque blend coming straight outta Paso. 5.11.23. — 2 years ago

Brett Francis

9.0

This was very closed for the first pour and benefited greatly from some time (1hr) to breathe. Once it opened up, it had a liquid smoke hints on a crisp, grassy nose. Tasted of blackberry, black cherry, and cola with along acidic finish. — 3 years ago