RH Phillips EXP Syrah 1997
Syrah/Shiraz
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
1997
Size
750ML
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Winemaker Notes
Like Sinatra, the Mercedes SL and cashmere twin sets, Syrah is the class act of the wine business. No over-buffed, in-your-face stuff here; Syrah knows about self-esteem without therapy. R.H. Phillips EXP Syrah is solid style in a bottle. An elegant texture, rich flavors of black cherries and spice with a silky, lingering finish. EXP Syrah has enough style to stand on its own and enough class to share the stage with a rack of lamb or a prime rib. This Syrah is deeply colored with aromatic notes of lavender, plum, raspberry and leather. The wine is broad in the mouth with moderate tannins and a toasty, vanilla oak finish.
Other Vintages
1999-
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In 1973 Karl and John Giguiere (along with John's wife Lane) went home to the Dunnigan Hills farm they grew up on to settle down to the idyll life on the family wheat and sheep operation. The charm of being shepherds quickly wore off when the three discovered that sheep use almost zero percent of their brains. The sheep were fired. In 1981, they planted 10 acres of Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc; in 1983, they started their own winery. Naming their new venture after the brothers' maternal grandfather, they launched R.H. Phillips with 4,000 cases of wine. They sold every drop. Next year they sold 40,000 cases; the year after that, they sold 150,000 cases. Today, R.H. Phillips has 1600 acres of grapes on the property, and produces over 400,000 cases of wine.
MET155323_1997 Item# 4011