Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with lamb ragout with olives and peppers, beef stew with vegetables, leeks and Crimini mushrooms, French onion soup with thyme and Gruyere crostini.
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Professional Ratings
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Connoisseurs' Guide
There are, in truth, few differences between this intense, deeply drawn effort and its reserve counterpart above, and, like its mate, it is loaded with concentrated, fully ripened fruit and sports a sweet trim of oak spice along with a pronounced gamy streak. It is again a very well-structured wine despite its high ripeness and never once becomes heavy or hot, and it keeps its sights firmly set on juicy berries and spice all the way through its very long-lasting finish.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
90 POINTS, WILFRED WONG. (Tasted: August 19, 2016, San Francisco, CA USA) The 2013 Adelaida Anna's Vineyard Syrah packs impressive power on the palate. The wine's bold black fruit, sweet spices and savory notes make it a perfect barbecue wine. Drinks quite nicely now. (Tasted: August 19, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
Marked by an unmistakable deep purple hue and savory aromatics, Syrah makes an intense, powerful and often age-worthy red. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah achieves its maximum potential in the steep village of Hermitage and plays an important component in the Red Rhône Blends of the south, adding color and structure to Grenache and Mourvèdre. Syrah is the most widely planted grape of Australia and is important in California and Washington. Sommelier Secret—Such a synergy these three create together, the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre trio often takes on the shorthand term, “GSM.”
