Rich, aromatic and powerfully focused. This is a big wine, but it's not at all heavy, showing amazing purity of fruit, with blackberry, plum and huckleberry fruit galore, all pointing toward the long, expressive finish. Tannins are present but well-integrated. Should go far. Best from 2010 through 2020. – HS

Also leaning strongly towards the meaty, savory spectrum, the 2006 Clarendon Hills Syrah Moritz (100% Syrah aged for 18 months in 85% new French oak) exhibits a wild, rugged array of ripe plum ,blackberry, charred meats, leather, dried underbrush, and herbs on the nose. This is a big Syrah that has a full-bodied, textured mouth feel, good freshness, and a chewy, heady finish. While this doesn’t have the seamlessness and integration of some of the other single vineyard Syrahs, it’s certainly outstanding, and will offer a decade or prime drinking.