Winemaker Notes
This Rhone-style blend has a garnet color highlighted with purple edges. Aromas of brambly black fruit, raspberry hard candy, and hints of savory spice jump out of the glass. The wine is medium-plus bodied with crisp acidity, offering flavors of purple fruits and smoked meat.
Its weight and balance make it a perfect pairing with anything off the grill.
Blend: 90% Syrah, 6% Mourvèdre, and 4% Grenache
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Lifted and perfumed aromas of Damson plums, dark cherries, pepper and rose petals. The palate is medium- bodied with refined tannins and focused acidity, giving notes of blackberries, licorice, cured meat and spices. A soft and finely structured syrah.
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Vinous
The 2022 Syrah G17 is a blend of 90% Syrah, 6% Mourvèdre and 4% Grenache. It’s light, translucent and texturally very elegant, extending through a beautiful, elongated finish. Spiced blueberry, wintergreen, blood orange, baking spice and lavender gain some salty nuance with air.
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Wine Enthusiast
This bottling, which includes 6% Mourvèdre and 4% Grenache, is shy on the nose at first, then opens slowly into elderberry and dark soil aromas. The palate is spicy with pepper and herbal in thyme, giving depth to the blackberry backdrop.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2022 Syrah G17 is sourced from several sites in the area, from Double L to Paraiso, and blended with 6% Mourvèdre and 4% Grenache. Dense blue fruit is dusted in light spice and earthy anise and clove, with well-integrated oak adding a touch of weight and texture, making for a medium to full-bodied experience on the palate, finishing in a hint of vanilla.
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.”
A geographic and climatic paradise for grape vines, Monterey is a part of the greater Central Coast AVA and contains within it five smaller sub-appellations, including Arroyo Seco, San Lucas, San Bernabe, Hames Valley and the famous Santa Lucia Highlands. The climate is relatively warm but tempered by cool, coastal winds, allowing the regions in Monterey County an exceptionally long growing season. Bud break often happens two weeks sooner and harvest tends to be two weeks later compared to other surrounding regions.
Monterey’s coastal side, where the cooling ocean fog allows grapes to develop a perfect sugar-acid balance, excels in the production of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Riesling. Warmer, inland subzones are home to fleshy, concentrated and full-bodied reds like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zinfandel.
Chardonnay, covering about 40% of vineyard acreage, is the most widely planted grape in all of Monterey County.