Initial notes of purple and black fruits, blackberry, dark plum, black licorice, chocolate, and a hint of asphalt. A ripe, fruity style, similar to a number of 2012 entry level Cabernets.
Over the past few years, this and the 2009 S&M have been a couple of my favorite hedonistic Syrahs. Notes of deep plum, ripe raspberry, blueberry, leather, salami, and a hint of chocolate.
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…
Great mountain fruit, with notes of wild, ripe red currant, raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry, marionberry, graphite, red soil, rusty iron, and cloves.
A very nice medium-to-full bodied wine (by Carter standards), with a rounded and plush texture. Notes of black fruits, licorice, asphalt, graphite, cedar, and some earth. Some chalk and granite…
Notes of dark/ripe raspberry, blueberry, wet slate and granite, black olive, and hints of charcuterie. A softer Obsidian; it continued to become even more delicate with an hour or two in the decanter.
PnP with notes of black and purple fruits, blackberry jam, black licorice, tar, and wet rock. An hour of slow O2 and opening up in the glass rounded out and softened this wine a bit, whereby some of…
PnP with tight notes of licorice, black fruit, wet slate, and asphalt. Firm, chalky tannins on entry. Slow O2 for over an hour and some decent swirling in the glass opened up additional notes of…
PnP with notes of dark purple and black fruit notes, alcohol, and baking spice. Full of energy and just a little bit of initial, unresolved tannins, the 2010 Relentless is an electric, fascinating…
Similar to my notes on 7/20/15. A profile of chocolate cherry and blackberry liqueur, vanilla, cassis, and chocolate truffle. Not overly sweet like the flavors might first have you believe, but…
Tasted at Mike Smith's house in late 2014 and this thing was really screaming with bold, young notes of powerful black and blue fruits, licorice, cassis, and spice. Clearly it was flaunting its youth.
Opened up with aromas of dark fruit, cedar soil, wood, and alcohol. In the glass, similar notes of dark black fruits, ripe blackberry, cedar/wood, forest floor, and a hint of coffee. Initially the…
Similar as my notes from 8/1/15. I noticed more of the typical KB cola, rhubarb, and sassafras notes this time around. Drinking well right now, and should sail through the next couple of years.
Similar to my previous notes on the 2010 Old Vine version of this petite, with a little less extraction and less sweet, overt vanillin notes than the Old Vine.
PnP with a bit of a restrained nose of black fruits, black licorice, and stone. Initial palate entry showed notes of tightly coiled-up black and red fruits, blackberry, black and red licorice, and…
