Jeremy’s Tasting Notes &c.

Believably Syrah, un-ruined by enormous alcohol content or heavy-handed oaking. This has good acid and tannin and restrained (for California) fruit. Pleasant soft fruits and spices that linger and increase in interest after you swallow. Not enormously complex, but it could well just be a bit closed and in need of some air time. This is a good example of where winemaking in California COULD go, if people worried more about making wines that taste good and less about making wines that out-score, out-color, out-concentrate the competition. (WFM, $17 (available elsewhere for $13, buyer beware))