2006 Montes Alpha Syrah

Community Tasting Notes (187) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  1/1/2022 - shugmo wrote:

  Welcoming the New Year with a New World red. Still deeply coloured with a dense mouthfeel, but the fruit is fading letting sweet oaky vanilla dominate even more than previously. Touch of tobacco, enough acidity to accompany food with a hint of its previous pepperiness on the finish. Last bottle, but if I had more I'd be drinking up.

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  12/5/2020 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Not too often that a $20 bottle of wine performs at this level. PnP and drank with a braised pork shoulder dinner. The berry fruit in this wine was pure and very concentrated. Secondary flavors of earth and herbs. I have drank a lot of $100 bottles that would have to look up to this beauty. Still one more in the cellar to have next year. Drink or Hold.

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  7/3/2019 - llsawyer665 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Perfect

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  12/25/2018 - The Hero wrote: 93 Points

  Delicious meaty red with a bit of smoke. Showing it's age quite nicely. I think it has another year or two to go.

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  5/11/2017 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This wine continues to get better with age. Quite the QPR here and quite an improvement from the last bottle I drank in '13. I would say this wine has at least 3-5 year before it starts a decline.

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