December 18, 2015 - Popped and poured. Opaque inky color. Plum, pepper, blue and black fruit notes. Integrated tannin; flavors of black fruit and plum, spice. Ripe, but not overly so; concentrated. Adds a tar note with air. 8-89 pts.
June 3, 2014 - Took 20 mins to open Up
Heavy Body, the syrupyness of the wine has faded now with just big fruit, nice red berrys no traces of oak all intergrated beautifully, after 2.5hrs it started to die
Conc: For the Price of $35 i was happy with the wine, but dying after 2.5hrs shows a short drinking window, better by itself then with the steak dinner
May 16, 2014 - I've had a few bottle of this recently. Two showed concentrated palate, and still vibrant flavours of earthy leather and expressive cherry . The last seemed more muted on the fruit and was not as expressive. My sense is that cork integrity had a play in this, but also the wine is soon to be on the decline.
May 11, 2014 - Consistent notes from before. Lots of black liquorice and blackberry. Ready to drink!
March 30, 2014 - A very pleasant surprise. Great QPR. Drinking very well now.
December 15, 2013 - Big boy! Sweet fruit, dark cherry, notes of milk chocolate on the nose. Notes of leather, dark soil earth tones & black pepper spice, which translates onto the palate. Tannins still very youthful, firm gripping & chalky. Very chewy & long lasting on the finish. Medium acidity. Should age wonderfully. Syrah lovers dream.
March 2, 2012 - Astringent, earthy, with a lithe red fruit and leather. For $30 - would have been happy. But, for $60 - a bit disappointing
October 4, 2010 - Very nice wine, drinking well now... Lots of fruit, very powerful, most definitely a distinctive Syrah caracter... Needs a big piece of game, like deer, with which it was a great match...
Tanins nicely integrated, but still a few years ahead of it. WOTN, just ahead of Rauzan-Ségla 1998.
March 19, 2010 - OK, but I didn't really like the fruit that much.
March 15, 2010 - very nice for a cali syrah. full boddied. Not completely integrated, but for $30, I couldn't complain.