Tasted 13 September 2015
Central Coast · Paso Robles
PnP with a tightly wrapped core of black licorice, blackberry, bitter cacao, and chalky tannins. After two hours in the decanter at cellar temperature, it unwound enough to show some of the sweeter black and purple…
Purple Syrah-based fruit with a clipped and simple finish. As a GSM (or actually a SGM), the depth is almost completely absent. Not a lot of energy. Round and bitter at the same time, which was odd.…
Weak, thin, and linear. Some pepper and herb notes surrounding would-be fruit flavors of bitter cherry and dried plum (to the point of saddle leather). An odd wine. Almost no depth or concentration.…
A lot of black cherry fruit and some earth initially pumping out of this wine. The attack seemed as though it would easily sail on through the finish...but it didn't. Fell flat and quickly faded as…
