A festive accompaniment ($17) to a Christmas Eve ham. — 3 years ago
8/17 gober barrio fede barrio lalo romero jcsap mazf romulo z4 — 4 years ago
Found another ‘17. Dark Ruby with aromas of ripe berry fruit and floral spice. On the palate flavors of blackberry, black cherry, plum and currants with complex spice showing notes of cacao, cinnamon and rich vanilla oak. Graceful soft tannins, nice mouthfeel, great balance with acidity, long finish, ending with notes of oak, smoke and mineral notes. Nice! — 3 years ago
17+ full fruit, good length, quite delicious. At a zinc in Paris (I wish). — 4 years ago
Vanilla and light floral on the nose, vibrant cherry palate that packs a nice punch on acidity without going overboard, cherry follows through to end with some very light woodiness. — 4 months ago
Light, juicy, tart — 2 years ago
Zoom event with Drew Bledsoe and Josh McDaniels. Vertical from ‘07, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16, ‘17, ‘17 estate, and ‘18. All were exceptionally smooth and silky with good depth of fruit. Notes on the ‘18: 90% CS, 5% Malbec, 5% Merlot. Least favorite of the night. Still a good wine but perhaps a bit too young, or just different enough from the others that I liked ones with a bit more age. This wine had a little more density than the others and perhaps a little more earth and graphite coming through that masked the fruit. It still had the classic doubleback elegance of the others but I felt we were not seeing this wine’s true expression. It only had about 1 hour in the glass and perhaps I need to pull another bottle, decant for a few hours and see what it does. — 3 years ago
Steve Goore
Took some time to open up but became delicious. Lots of fruit but not sweet. The splash of viognier softened the Syrah a bit. — a month ago