2015 Cayuse Syrah Armada Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  3/16/2024 - Radboy wrote: 95 Points

  A fabulous drink! Perfumed nose, excellent depth and balance. No need to wait further when a wine is this ready!

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  2/4/2024 - Vinoclovis Likes this wine: 95 Points

  PnP and immediately the nose hits you. I like funk but this is just stank. Was afraid I wouldn’t be able to drink it. After 15 minutes the funk blew off and a very well integrated and beautiful wine followed. Funk, earth, tar, mulled strawberry. I’m now looking for more as this was my last bottle.

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  12/17/2023 - jonnysandwich Likes this wine: 94 Points

  You are traveling in a distant country, perhaps somewhere in eastern Europe (assuming you do not live there). You spend a long, hot afternoon hiking across a series of sun-drenched, brush-topped hills that never break out into forest. Dusk arrives, but you push on.
  
  You eventually encounter a camp of farmers who are preparing a humble dinner of roasted goat. None in the camp speaks your language but they invite you to dine using hand gestures. As the meat cooks, your nostrils fill with flavored smoke--burnt grass, charred fat, singed thyme, warm olive and tomato, and several other aromas you cannot place.
  
  Someone hands you an oblong, spherical object wrapped in blistered foil. You assume the object is a potato, but no--peeling off the foil, you find a blackened stone. You look around the camp, confused. Each member of the party has a similar stone in hand that they are licking or sniffing or sucking. The stones are, it seems, part of the meal. Even after plates of goat are passed around, everyone continues to nurse his respective rock--the camp is hungry for goat but RAVENOUS for these stones that they never, in fact, ingest.
  
  You are curious; you are open-minded; this is what you came here for. You stick out your tongue. It makes contact with the stone just as a generous helping of goat and a side of stewed fruit are placed before you, and an unexpected wind blows the body odor of a nearby animal into your face. The taste is as ineffable as it is irresistible.
  
  The fire snaps behind you; the moon beams over your head. Your face sweats from heat and strange pleasure. The camp members close their eyes and sing in their native language. You close your eyes, too, and take a deep breath.

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  6/22/2023 - Volleyball Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very funky to begin but that died down after an hour or so. Surprisingly elegant, mid weight wine with fresh acidity and minerality, medium tannins and cool red berries. Lacked a little JNSQ though.

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  5/29/2023 - Rywyine Likes this wine:

  Popped and poured a tiny bit in a glass to follow while I was cooking. Super funky nose. This blew off after a bit and the wine slowly opened u over the course of the night. Nose of briny olives, smoked meet. Palate savory characteristics, blackberry poking through more and more over the 3-4 hours we drank this, very nice mineral finish. Tannins were minimal good balancing acidity. Elegance but striking and distinct flavors. This opened quite a bit over the night and I think this will still improve a little with some more time. That being said, it was still really good at this time and I had no qualms popping it now. Drinking great.

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