Description
The pairing: Meats like grilled steaks or braised meats like beef bourguignonne, duck, lamb stew, pork like BBQ ribs.
The nose: Intense aromas of black fruit like blackberries, black plums, black currant and black cherries, spices like Herbs of Provence, and baking spices and vanilla.
The palate: Intense black fruit, yet nicely balanced and complex with baking spices, lavender, and a hint of vanilla, leather, cedar and smoke with a long commanding finish.
Tech Talk:
- Appellation: Lodi, CA
- Composition: 100% Syrah
- Sourcing: Abba Vineyard
- Production: 77 cases
- Aging: 21 months in medium toast French Oak (30% new)
- Alcohol: 15.1%
- TA: 0.5625g/100ml
- pH: 3.63
- Residual Sugar: 0.10
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What people are saying:
Mamma Mia, this a big fruit forward, complex wine!
Pairs with meat and more meat!
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From the Beverage Testing Institute
Black violet color. Interesting, fruity aromas and flavors of dark chocolate with almonds, cherry confection, raspberry gelee, and apple fritters with a velvety, vibrant, fruity medium body and a smooth, interesting, medium-long finish that shows impressions of vanilla and sassafras with moderate oak flavor. A well-integrated, fruity Syrah with wide appeal.