Saxum Booker Vineyard 2006

Rhone Red Blends from Central Coast, California

94 Wine
Spectator
93 Robert
Parker

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Saxum Booker Vineyard 2006 Front Bottle Shot

Product Details

Varietal

Rhone Red Blends

Region

Central Coast, California

Producer

Saxum

Vintage

2006

Size

750ML

ABV

16.6%

Features

Collectible

Boutique

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Aged in new French, puncheons for 20 months beforebottling, like all Saxum's wines, it was only racked once and bottledwithout fining or filtration.

Professional Ratings

94 Wine Spectator
Bold, ripe, intense and vibrant, with a full-throttle core of dark berry fruit that's rich, focused and full-bodied, offering blackberry, wild berry, plum and black cherry, picking up spice, flora, tar and black licorice flavors in spades.
93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Atypically composed of 100% Syrah, the opulent, soft, flamboyant 2006 Booker Vineyard possesses a dense purple color in addition to notes of smoky black currant and blackberry fruit as well as a hint of incense. This lush, fruit-forward offering will be ready to drink immediately after bottling, and should last for 7-10 years.
Range: (91-93)

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Saxum

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Saxum Vineyards is focused on producing Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvedre based blends from the Templeton Gap of Paso Robles, California. We let our rocky calcareous soils, steep hillsides, and cooling ocean breezes speak through our wines by keeping our yields extremely low, picking fruit at the peak of ripeness, and using a minimalist approach in the cellar. Production is kept at a total of 2200-2800 cases per year divided between 6 different cuvees, Broken Stones, Heart Stone Vineyard, James Berry Vineyard, Booker Vineyards, Rocket Block and Bone Rock.

Rhône Blends

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With bold fruit flavors and accents of sweet spice, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre form the base of the classic Rhône Red Blend, while Carignan, Cinsault and Counoise often come in to play. Though they originated from France’s southern Rhône Valley, with some creative interpretation, Rhône blends have also become popular in other countries. Somm Secret—Putting their own local spin on the Rhône Red Blend, those from Priorat often include Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. In California, it is not uncommon to see Petite Sirah make an appearance.

Central Coast Wine

California

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The largest and perhaps most varied of California’s wine-growing regions, the Central Coast produces a good majority of the state's wine. This vast California wine district stretches from San Francisco all the way to Santa Barbara along the coast, and reaches inland nearly all the way to the Central Valley.

Encompassing an extremely diverse array of climates, soil types and wine styles, it contains many smaller sub-AVAs, including San Francisco Bay, Monterey, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Paso Robles, Edna Valley, Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Maria Valley.

While the Central Coast California wine region could probably support almost any major grape varietiy, it is famous for a few Central Coast reds and whites. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel are among the major ones. The Central Coast is home to many of the state's small, artisanal wineries crafting unique, high-quality wines, as well as larger producers also making exceptional wines.

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