Tasting Notes – March

Syrah 2011

 

This Syrah has an intensely intellectual personality, and is unapologetically full of gutsy aplomb and sex appeal. At a dinner party I imagine this wine as a combination of Jon Stewart and Sunni Patterson…poetically political by nature.(and I mean that in a complimentary way)

The Gush: This wine is produced by vines planted sky high at 1700 meters above sea level in the Cafayate Valley of Argentina. It’s deliciously intense. Fully of spicy aromas, cassis and cloves. The tannins have a delicious weight woven seamlessly with the dark fruit flavors of blackberry and plum. The wine has aged for 12 months in American and French oak barrels, which produces the overt hints and suggestions of vanilla and oak.

 Playing Matchmaker: Drink with roasted vegetables, Teriyaki ribs, rich, spicy pastas and basically anything coming off the BBQ.

Bottom Line: Want an excellent value wine that will leave your friends convinced you broke the bank to afford such luxury? Priced around $15 a bottle, it’s amazing. I don’t honestly know how they do it. Try it, and tell me what you think.