Syrah Wine

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Dense, deep and brooding, delivering a complex mouthful of coffee-accented cherry, boysenberry, roasted meat and licorice flavors that meld together harmoniously and extend into the long, expansive finish. Tannins are...

jebdunnuck.com, 97 points: As with the ’14, the 2012 Syrah Rodgers Creek Vineyard saw a whopping 10% Viognier. It’s still young and offers a sensational perfume of currants, smoked meats, olives, spices, and crushed flowers. It’s a full-bodied...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Solidly built, with a compact core of steeped currant and plum fruit flavors liberally laced with singed alder, leather and tar notes. Keeps a taut edge through the finish, as this is youthfully tight, with good...

Wine Spectator, 91 points: Solidly built, with a tarry frame that integrates nicely into the core of steeped plum and blackberry fruit. A melted licorice edge drives through on the finish, while the fruit wins out easily. Best from 2018 through...

jebdunnuck.com, 95 points: More Hermitage in style with its firm, structured feel on the palate, the 2014 Igp Côtes Catalanes Secret de Schistes sports a deep purple/plum color to go with classic Syrah notes of blackberries, bacon fat, black olives...

Wine Spectator, 91 points: An alluring style, with a whiff of white pepper giving way to sleek sanguine and iron notes that race along, presenting pretty bitter cherry and damson plum fruit flavors. The long finish lets savory and mineral details...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: While the deep plum/ruby/garnet-tinged 2003 Shiraz Command is slightly less nuanced than the 2002 it is just as powerful and full-bodied offering copious quantities of fruit glycerin tannin and muscle. This chewy rich...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: 98+ The star of the show in 2013 is the 2013 Ermitage le Pavillon. Coming from the west and eastern edges of the Bessards lieu-dit and aged in 30% new French oak, its sensational black/blue color is followed by the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: (96 points) A wine that stood out in my Paso Robles tasting was the 2013 Syrah Nuts and Bolts. Made from 100% Syrah that saw 16 months in 70% new French oak, it's the greatest vintage of this cuvee I've tasted and it...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: Brilliant ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes fresh raspberry and boysenberry, potpourri, floral oils and smoky minerals. Lively, palate-staining red and dark berry and floral pastille flavors are complicated by...

jebdunnuck.com, 97 points: The 2015 Côte Rôtie La Landonne from Delas is a seamless, gorgeously balanced Côte Rôtie that reminds me of the 2011. Offering classic notes of smoked meats, currants, graphite, chocolate and roasted herbs, this beauty...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Youthfully tight, featuring a core of dark currant, blackberry and black cherry paste flavors, held in check for now by smoldering charcoal and singed cast iron notes. Grippy through the finish, with flashes of white...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Solidly built, with a compact core of steeped currant and plum fruit flavors liberally laced with singed alder, leather and tar notes. Keeps a taut edge through the finish, as this is youthfully tight, with good...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: Even better and one of the top two to three wines in the vintage, the 2011 Hermitage Les Bessards (100% Syrah that spent 16 months in 70% new French oak) possesses an inky purple color to go with a fabulously rich, pure...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2015 Cornas Domaine de Saint Pierre is a full-bodied, concentrated wine that brings the essence of Cornas to the bottle in its scents of crushed stones and firm, tannic finish. Hints of toasted almond and mocha give...