Syrah Heart of Stone

Tasting Notes

Tasting Date:   5/16/2009 – At our Spring Celebration lineup: Deep, complex, still holding some of its reserve. A dignified gentleman, muscle under a 3-piece suit… Spices & minerals, a lot of depth.

Tasting Date:   3/10/2006 – The wine now tastes richer, rounder, and fuller than in the past. Still structured and powerful, and yet steadily moving towards its full maturity.

Tasting Date:   4/30/2005 – With six more months in the bottle, this wine is now starting to consider showing signs of maturity. The violets are still there, and some black raspberry and ripe figs, but now there some hints of tar are emerging, and a meaty complexity. Refreshing spicy minerality at the finish. Stylish, well balanced, and pure.

Tasting Date:   11/19/2004 – This wine is moving right along... the fruit is back: raspberry, black cherry, blueberry; the flowers, the minerals. More layered now. Good mid-palate, ample body (mid-full), elegance, structure and balance. Long finish, on the spice/minerals.

Tasting Date:   10/15/2004 – Already recovering from the shock of the recent bottling. Large-framed and ripe, with layers of spices, herbs, black fruits (and blueberry), earth, and flowers (violet?) surrounding its firm, dark core of minerals (Heart of Stone...?). Well balanced, complex, very long.