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There is one Rhone-based wine in the collection, the 2006 Ciel du Cheval Vineyard, (100% Varietal) aged in 40% new French and Hungarian oak. The nose exhibits smoked meat, bacon and blueberry, leading to a full-bodied dense chewy wine with plenty of succulent fruit, some structure and a friendly personality. It can be enjoyed over the next 6-8 years.
91
This wine is really all about chocolate, especially when first opened. A ripe black raspberry-jam scent emerges from underneath, with candied plum flavors giving buyancy to that cocoa'd base. With time this wine becomes more ample and fresh, both juicy and mouthfilling. A syrah for barbecued ribs.
91 Points
This wine is really all about chocolate, especially when first opened. A ripe black raspberry jam scent emerges from underneath, with candied plum flavors giving some buoyancy to that cocoa'd base.
91 Points
The wine possesses generous extract, spicy blue fruit flavors, moderate tannin, and a long, firm finish. Drink this Côte Rôtie look alike now through 2025.
91 Points
It’s a big wine… soft, round texture, not overtly tannic, just simple, unadulterated lusciousness Decant and serve with Peking duck.
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...chocolate-covered cherry, baked plum, anise, cinnamon, butterscotch, toast, roasted coffee and earth aromas and flavors. Nice price.
“This Syrah is loaded with jammy blackberry fruit and rich chocolate. This is a crowd pleaser.”
Excellent!
“This Syrah is loaded with jammy blackberry fruit and rich chocolate. This is a crowd pleaser.”
Thick and dense on the palate, with gobs of flavor, this full bodied effort demands 6-8 years of cellaring and should drink well through 2040.
