Lovely plum, leather and spice flavors are rich and deep, and linger on the long finish. Impressive for its concentration and length. An excellent value in French Syrah.
Vivid ruby. High-pitched red and dark berry aromas are complicated by notes of cracked pepper, Asian spices, violet and smoky minerals. Lively, finely etched red fruit flavors are framed by silky tannins and gain richness with aeration. Leaves notes of blueberry and black raspberry behind on the spicy, impressively persistent finish.
The 2006 Alpha Syrah Apalta Vineyard is purple colored with an enticing nose of game, espresso, earth, and blueberry. This leads to an elegantly-styled Syrah with spicy blue and black fruit flavors, good depth, and a fruit-filled finish.
This is a rare opportunity to taste a truly mature California Syrah. Everything is in perfect harmony with fruit, tannins and acidity at perfect pitch.
This is as good as California Syrah gets. With Croze Hermitage -like aromatics of crushed stone, violets, green peppercorn and red and black fruits marry with flavors of fresh raspberries, talc violet pastilles.
This is an elegant, finely tuned Syrah that calls to mind the best examples form the Northern Rhone. Blackberry, spice and game notes make this a compelling wine at a sensational price.
This elegant red is decidedly Old World. That is to say it has seductive aromas of black cherries, black pepper and spice cabinet. Another great wine from HdV.
The wine boasts a vibrant deep purple color. Pepper, nicoise olives, black fruits and chalky aromatics leap from the glass. Beautifully textured flavors mirror the nose and meld nicely on the palate. The weight of the wine is certainly reminiscent of the Northern Rhone yet still delivers a multilayered expression. The finish is long and smooth with great acidity keeping the wine fresh and lively in the mouth.
Wet smoke, dark chocolate, creosote, black currant and chalk aromas emerge with air. The aromas carry well to the palate where the sweet black fruit are full and supple on the finish. Outstanding!
Beautiful aromas of chocolate, ground pepper, blackberries, flowers, and road tar. Flavors mirror the aromas and are intense yet impressively well-balanced. .
The sensational 2005 Relentless boasts an opaque purple color along with a wonderfully sweet nose of blackberries, creosote, acacia flowers, and hints of pepper and meat in the background. Full-bodied and densely concentrated with the oak component well-concealed by the wine’s extravagant richness
A gorgeous, rich, highly extracted wine with pepper and cherries as well as a background of earth and smoke. Intense and vibrant with plum, raspberry and toasty oak this is a well made wine with a revealing finish.