Country: US / Sentinel Oak Vineyard Pyramid Block
Variety: Syrah California
Winery: Terre Rouge / Shenandoah Valley (CA)
Here’s a big, juicy, imposingly rich Syrah that’s so stuffed with primary fruit character, it needs time in the cellar to come around. Tasted in January, it’s enormous in sweet, jammy blackberries, melted milk chocolate, licorice, cherry pie filling and all kinds of peppery spices. Better sometime in 2010, and could become quite dramatic after that.