95 Wine Enthusiast & Cellar Selection
Roasted red-fruit, dark-red-flower, peppery spice and cocoa-nib aromas show on the nose of this bottling. There is a great grip to the sip, where milk-chocolate and cappuccino flavors integrate into the boysenberry-paste core. Drink now through 2038.
Winery Notes:
"Jet black, with a richness and intensity of color ripe for diving into. Take in all the aromas of black fruits, hoisin sauce, crushed rocks, and wild things, it is all going on. Taste blackberries, plum sauce, cracked pepper, vanilla-chocolate-covered espresso beans. Eyes wide shut sees the feral suggestions that high-quality Syrah hints at along with a seemingly contradictory lavender and violet fragrance. Almost a red wine reduction shows all the concentration of flavors that is a fine Syrah, think Cabernet Franc meets Zinfandel. Fire up the grill, turn up the tunes and have fun, you deserve it. Drink now through 2025."