Red Car Tomorrowland Syrah 2007
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The dark ruby/purple-colored 2007 Syrah Tomorrowland exhibits more forest floor, blueberry, black raspberry, and cassis characteristics. Rich, full-bodied, and dense with silky tannins as well as a layered mouthfeel, it should be enjoyed over the next 5-6 years.
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Wine Spectator
Dense and chewy, showing exotic earth, tar, wild berry and pebble flavors that are intense and concentrated, still echoing hints of fermentation aromas. Ends with full-bodied, chewy tannins. Best from 2010 through 2016. 647 cases made.
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Connoisseurs' Guide
Even while leading with a hint of bias to ripeness, this wine has plenty of lively, keenly focused varietal fruit on the positive side of the ledger, and it backs it up with notes of black pepper spice and rich earth seasonings that further expand its varietal precision. It is full but not heavy in body, starts with a nice bit of suppleness at the front of the palate and is fairly well-balanced from front to back. Its flavors are deep and polished, and it finishes with fine-grained tannins in support.
Red Car was founded in 2000 when Mark Estrin, Carroll Kemp and Richard Crowell produced 50 cases of wine from a single ton of Syrah grapes in a Culver City garage. In a nod to their Los Angeles roots, the new venture was named Red Car after the trolley line that ferried riders across the region for the first half of the twentieth century.
In 2004, they purchased 125 acres of land and began developing vineyards in the wild coastal ridges north of Sonoma County’s Bodega Bay, a region now known as the Fort Ross-Seaview AVA. Here, the interplay of warm sunshine, cool Pacific breezes and sandstone soils could yield the age-worthy wines of structure and complexity that had captured their imagination.
Today, under the direction of viticulturist, Greg Adams, and winemaker, Tanner Scheer, Red Car farms five dramatic vineyards including Heaven & Earth, Zephyr Farms, Mohrhardt Ridge, Hagan, and The Estate. This rugged terrain's coastal influence—where the Pacific fog filters in daily through giant redwoods until warm sunshine sends it back out to the sea—provides perfect growing conditions for their hallmark style: perfumed aromatics, bright fruit, crisp texture and uplifting acidity. Red Car is passionately committed to producing wines of purity and focus that express the authentic varietal character and terroir of each unique coastal vineyard site. At the core, Red Car is a small, independent farming operation committed to conservation and sustainability.