En Cerise Vineyard Syrah

Amazing..obviously amazing barrels. Not overly extracted but rich AF. Great first experience with Cayuse. Thanks Kevin!

A little reduced; charred and meaty. Elegant black fruits, forest floor, light cocoa, roast lamb. Beautiful concentration, but not nearly as fresh and lithe as the ‘14 Cailloux, one of my favorite wines ever.

rocks, candied bacon, pure, precise. medium tannins, medium + acid. finessed. lovely.

These wines are the most confounding wines I’ve ever had. Certainly singular but that’s about the best thing I can say about it.

The 2011 Cayuse Syrah from the En Cerise Vineyard in Walla Walla is showing so well tonight. There’s enough youth to it that the fruit is still front and center, but also enough age that its full depth of the complexity has emerged. Black cherry, plum, and blackberry, but with an exotic blood orange component that really ties the wine together and provides a seamless segue into the layers of garrigue, olive tapenade, lavender, sandalwood, smoldering incense, crushed rock, and campfire smoked meat with cracked pepper. The terroir is as undeniable as is the “Cayuse Funk” that Christophe Baron is so well known for. Extraordinary.

Chocolate and cranberries in a campfire.

I was really impressed with this for such a young En Chamberlin vineyard. Fox fur and raw hot dog aromas rise from the decanter, dark herbaceous flavor profile—black olive, licorice, bay leaf. Thank you for hosting in your gorgeous cellar @Mike R you provided ear to ear smiles in your cellar

Famous for reason. One of the most exciting Syrahs I've had in years

Fruit, floral, and very savory (meat) on the nose and palate.

Pours purple in color. ON THE NOSE: stewed jam, clove, anise and tar. ON THE PALATE: dark fruit, smoke, plum, and earth. Tannins are still here ten years later. Medium body medium finish.