Ojai Stolpman Syrah 2000

  • 91 Robert
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Ojai Stolpman Syrah 2000 Front Label
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Vintage
2000

Size
750ML

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

It starts out amazingly structured and ungiving but becomes a fascinating, subtle yet powerful syrah upon airing up. There is an appealing blueberry aroma that jumps out of the glass, much like the 1996. The mouth is juicy and delicious, until you reach the wall of ultra fine textured tannins that tells you that the wine needs five years in the bottle before you should bother to drink it. There is precious little topsoil at Stolpman, and Ojai's theory is that the shale soil imbues the wine with a minerality, tannin, and delicacy of fruit that wines from soils that are alluvial based never have.

Professional Ratings

  • 91
    The Pinot Noir-like 2000 Syrah Stolpman Vineyard resembles a Burgundy grand cru Richebourg more than a typical south Central Coast Syrah. Elegant notes of white flowers, berries, smoke, and spice are offered in a graceful, streamlined, beautifully pure, well-balanced format.

Other Vintages

2004
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2002
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1999
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Ojai, California
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Adam Tolmach went to UC Davis and studied viticulture and enology, and after graduating in 1976 he settled down on the property his grandfather bought in the Ojai Valley in 1933 to farm sweet corn and melons, selling them at a roadside stand. After two years of this satisfying, yet difficult and nearly profitless work he sought employment in his field of study.

Adam had planted a vineyard in Ojai to Syrah and Sauvignon Blanc and had begun producing wine from that fruit in 1983. When the collaboration with Clendenen ended he concentrated all his attention on The Ojai Vineyard to further explore the infinite details of his craft.

Looking back over the last 25 years, one can see the development of The Ojai Vineyard came in three distinct phases. In the beginning it was lots of fun discovering the budding Santa Barbara County, experimenting with new plantings, new areas, and a wide selection of varietals; Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, and other Rhone varietals. Back in 1983 the vines were grown without much care in what was called a California sprawl. It took years to get growers to move towards progressive practices like drip irrigation and vertical trellising to improved wine grape quality.

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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.”

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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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