Hermitage Syrah

Ooooh. A savory and complex nose. Blood, licorice, sexy deep fruit. Some fine tannin and a beautifully cold blooded and supple mid palate. Great intensity of fruit with hints of leather and tobacco and leather. Really good stuff.

This is truly lovely. Deep sexy blue fruit, loads of herbs and saline gnarly fruit. Really complex, sweet notes and long. Very, very good.

Just fantastic. Blackberries, meats, leather. Wonderful finish.

Deep blue and red fruit on the nose. Sour cherry and intense blueberry. Still quite primary, dome leather and a savory bloodiness. Beautifully balanced and young. Decades ahead.

An expressive wine, dense mature, with character, aged but still firms tannins with great spicy - I really love the wines from this estate

Great drinking silky tannins!

A wealth of flavors and thought here. Finish sailed on. The mix of fruit and secondary savory flavors plus the lift and lengthy finish just hits the spot.

Decanted and left for 60 min. Still pretty dense and tight, but great Purity and structure. Try again in 7-10?

Beautifully expressive, still youthful, but all the hallmarks of majestic Syrah, showing some oak evidence, but it is quite well integrated, I'd love to see this in 10yrs, huge potential.

Savory blood, black olives, iron, graphite. Second night more dark berries and plum emerged and even a hint of blossoms of some sort- maybe violet with smoked meat. Also tasted brighter the second evening. Tannins remained fine-grained throughout.