Decanted for 2hrs, drank over three days, preferred day one with it’s unbridled, raw nature. Killed it with the 50d dry-aged ribeye from Revel here in PDX.
Wine pours a deep purple in the glass. Intense, developing aromas of vanilla, lilac pastille, blueberry (jam/cooked, fresh), black berry (jam/cooked, fresh), black plum, cherry cordial, cured meats, soy, crushed rock, smoke, oak, black pepper- wine feels more heavy with new oak. In the mouth, the wine is dry (though, I feel like there is some RS here?), full bodied, high acid, med + tannin (very fine), high alcohol, intense in the mouth, with a long finish.
Overall, very good to outstanding w/time. Very much on the youthful side of things but better integrated since my last bottle; still, borderline infanticide here… personally, I’d have liked to have held onto this for another 5+yrs. This was a great wine, but I think I prefer Rostaing’s Cote Blonde to this. This wine comes off a bit too fruity/rich/sweet- something more “international” in style compared to some of the funkier syrahs coming from some other Northern Rhone producers, still- great stuff, especially compared to the SQN I/we popped earlier last week (and a helluva value compared as well)- this is more of what I though SQN might have been, and this again, reminds me of one of Arkenstone’s syrahs.
CherryPeppersnOnions
Spring Mountain and that Olga Raffault 👌🏼
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Nice notes! That steak looks gorgeous too, i’m drooling😂
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Decanted for 2hrs, drank over three days, preferred day one with it’s unbridled, raw nature. Killed it with the 50d dry-aged ribeye from Revel here in PDX.
Wine pours a deep purple in the glass. Intense, developing aromas of vanilla, lilac pastille, blueberry (jam/cooked, fresh), black berry (jam/cooked, fresh), black plum, cherry cordial, cured meats, soy, crushed rock, smoke, oak, black pepper- wine feels more heavy with new oak. In the mouth, the wine is dry (though, I feel like there is some RS here?), full bodied, high acid, med + tannin (very fine), high alcohol, intense in the mouth, with a long finish.
Overall, very good to outstanding w/time. Very much on the youthful side of things but better integrated since my last bottle; still, borderline infanticide here… personally, I’d have liked to have held onto this for another 5+yrs. This was a great wine, but I think I prefer Rostaing’s Cote Blonde to this. This wine comes off a bit too fruity/rich/sweet- something more “international” in style compared to some of the funkier syrahs coming from some other Northern Rhone producers, still- great stuff, especially compared to the SQN I/we popped earlier last week (and a helluva value compared as well)- this is more of what I though SQN might have been, and this again, reminds me of one of Arkenstone’s syrahs.
Spring Mountain and that Olga Raffault 👌🏼
Nice notes! That steak looks gorgeous too, i’m drooling😂
This is such a phenomenal wine. Cheers!
Great post and tasting note!