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2000 Philary Vineyard Syrah
This is our second year producing wine from this vineyard. This steep hillside vineyard on Atlas Peak Road overlooks Napa Valley and will remind you of the Northern Rhône. A beautiful vineyard that is surrounded by olive trees, herbs de Provence and lavender. This wine was aged in three new heavy toasted Burgundy shaped barrels.
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| Varietals: |
100% Syrah |
| Appellation: |
Napa Valley |
| Alcohol: |
14.1% |
| Cases Produced: |
65 |
| Comments: |
A powerhouse wine that will mesmerize all your senses - Incredibly exotic and very seductive. The aromas and flavors are a blend of concentrated blackberry jam, smoked game, olives, cassis and roasted herbs de Provence.
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| Reviews: |
Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate: 92 points
The most concentrated is the Amarone-like 2000 Syrah Philary Vineyard. This huge, brooding effort offers a mouthful of black fruits intermixed with smoke, earth, and licorice. Powerful, dense, and chewy, with excellent purity, it is a substantial Syrah from this light vintage. Drink it over the next 7-8 years.
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California Grapevine: 92 points
Dark purplish ruby; very attractive, intense, plumy, jammy, peppery, very ripe blackberry fruit aroma; full body; big, dense, highly extracted, peppery, jammy, slightly sweet, very ripe black cherry and blackberry fruit flavors; full tannin; lingering aftertaste. Needs several more years of bottle aging to resolve the tannin. Very highly recommended.
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Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: 1 puffs, 89 points (scale 0-3 puffs, 1-100 points)
This dense, big bodied bottling wanders perilously close to ripeness and comes up a little too hot for its own good. Its finishing heat noted, it is still an exotic, concentrated, many layered wine whose impressions of plums, pepper, loamy soil and chocolate make for a most fascinating drink that will hit its peak in three to four years.
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