Country: US / Alisos Vineyard
Variety: Syrah California
Winery: La Fenêtre / Santa Barbara County
There’s a wildness to this wine, with spicy, Provençal herbs and briary tannins that frame the blackberry, currant, licorice, balsam and cedar flavors. It’s tightly wound and dense now, not showing much elegance. But it’s interesting and different and could well be an ager. Try after 2011.