Waxwing
Flocchini Vineyard Petaluma Gap Syrah
Sonoma County, California, USA
Deep, bloody, fermenting fruit, cherry liquor. Intense.
Deep, bloody, fermenting fruit, cherry liquor. Intense.
Jan 18th, 2023
Read like really high quality new world syrah. Interesting to taste next to the sulfured version which read more old world.
Read like really high quality new world syrah. Interesting to taste next to the sulfured version which read more old world.
May 17th, 2020Fooled me for northern Rhone syrah. Really cool to taste next to the sans souf version.
Fooled me for northern Rhone syrah. Really cool to taste next to the sans souf version.
May 17th, 2020
This wine has so much going on. It’s like a life-form amalgam of animal/vegetable/mineral. Color is like plasma. Nose has raw grass-fed beef, liquid stones, and mentholic Ben-Gay thing, resinous herbs, lime, charcoal ash, and tangy boysenberry. Seriously. Lots of shit happening. It is mouthfilling and loaded with clingy, soft tannin, and has bloody, minerally, dark berry skin flavors for miles. Long finish and good acids. Only 13.9%, which, these days, passes for low alcohol. Terrific wine.
This wine has so much going on. It’s like a life-form amalgam of animal/vegetable/mineral. Color is like plasma. Nose has raw grass-fed beef, liquid stones, and mentholic Ben-Gay thing, resinous herbs, lime, charcoal ash, and tangy boysenberry. Seriously. Lots of shit happening. It is mouthfilling and loaded with clingy, soft tannin, and has bloody, minerally, dark berry skin flavors for miles. Long finish and good acids. Only 13.9%, which, these days, passes for low alcohol. Terrific wine.
Aug 25th, 2018
Mixed feeling in this one. Attractive purple color and New world fruits and earth on the Syrah but a sense of unbalanced heat also. Good with the meats though. Just realized this is a singleton of no sulfur. Other bottle traditional with sulfur! No more direct comparison!
Mixed feeling in this one. Attractive purple color and New world fruits and earth on the Syrah but a sense of unbalanced heat also. Good with the meats though. Just realized this is a singleton of no sulfur. Other bottle traditional with sulfur! No more direct comparison!
Apr 5th, 2022