Winemaker Notes
#64 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2024
Exuberant and full on the nose with overflowing fruit, hints of cocoa and mint. Meaty and round on the palate, with creamy and fluid tannins.
Blend: 85% Tempranillo, 15% Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Graciano
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Aromatically engaging for the Nyons olive, cured meat and tobacco notes that join the palate, adding sappy cherry and plum flavors. This red’s nice acidity keeps things in harmony on through the finish around fine, mineral-tinged tannins, with an herbal echo that lingers. Drink now through 2035.
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.”
Part of the Coquimbo region, also with the Limari Valley, Elqui Valley is one of the northern wine producing regions of Chile, which historically focused on table grapes and pisco production. Intense sunlight and cooling effects of the ocean, together with rocky, clay soil make this one of Chile’s up-and-coming wine regions.