{"id":6039,"date":"2010-04-28T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2010-04-28T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T23:18:32","slug":"syrah-from-california-and-cote-rotie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/syrah-from-california-and-cote-rotie\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrah from California and Cote-Rotie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This flight of Syrah takes us from the freshness of new fruit in California, to the development of bottle bouquet in wines from 2003 – excellent all around, featuring different expressions of the same grape over time and over both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

Foxen, Santa Ynez Valley, Williamson-Dore Vineyard, Syrah 2007 <\/strong>As in previous vintages, this wine exudes fruit with a vivaciousness of being freshly squeezed. In addition there is a bit of tar and brown spice. In the mouth the theme continues, with a very supple texture, dense, filling out the entire palate – very nice. The wine is neither fined nor filtered. Produced and bottled in Santa Maria 14.8% purchased for $35.99 at Bottle Barn Foxen<\/a><\/p>\n

Pierre Gaillard, Cote-Rotie, “Les Viallieres” 2003 <\/strong>This wine has developed some excellent bottle-aged complexity, with a sense of cured meat, coffee, dried cherries and cloves. In the mouth it displays the great ripeness of 2003, a bit of Band-Aid for complexity and the suppleness of age, with a velvety mouthfeel and plenty of acidity – very nice. Les Viallieres is a lieux-dit in the north of the appellation. 15% Viognier is co-fermented with this mostly Syrah wine. The wine was not filtered and bottled as a special selection for North Berkeley Imports, thus the designation of Cuvee Unique. Mis par Pierre Gaillard, proprietaire-recoltant a Malleval 14% purchased for $75.29 at Bottle Barn Pierre Gaillard<\/a><\/p>\n

DuMol, Russian River Valley, eddie’s patch, Syrah 2003 <\/strong>The fruit in this wine has more of a liqueur-like quality, sweet-appearing with a bit of alcohol poking its head out. In the mouth it is quite plush, with a thickness, making it rich and luxurious – very nice. The grapes for this wine were sourced from the Hoppe Family Vineyard. The wine was aged for 16 months in French oak, 50% of it being new. Proprietors Kerry Murphy and Michael Verlander. The wine is neither fined nor filtered. Produced and bottled in Santa Rosa 15.2% one bottle available at Belmont Wine in San Carlos for $85, this bottle was a gift from a friend DuMol Wines<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This flight of Syrah takes us from the freshness of new fruit in California, to the development of bottle bouquet in wines from 2003 – excellent all around, featuring different expressions of the same grape over time and over both sides of the Atlantic. Foxen, Santa Ynez Valley, Williamson-Dore Vineyard, Syrah 2007 As in previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,75,27,71,72,25,84],"tags":[760,758,759],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-cote-rotie","category-russian-river-valley","category-santa-barbara-county","category-santa-ynez-valley","category-sonoma-county","category-syrah","tag-dumol","tag-foxen","tag-pierre-gaillard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}