Tasting Notes: Cool climate Syrah grown in a warm year can create a deeply brooding and generous wine.  Toasty, smokey notes of Espresso crema and candied bacon intertwine with dark chocolate covered acai berries.  Dried violets and lavender bring a floral lift to the otherwise beastly persona.  The palate is full bodied and fleshy with blueberry cobbler, melted licorice, baker’s chocolate, and ground pepper pulsing through to the plump and opulent finish.  You’ll have a hard time laying this one down, but as always time in bottle will reward the patient.

Blend: 99% Syrah, 1% Roussanne 

TA: 5.7 g/L 

pH: 3.80 

Bottling Date: 5/22/26. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. 

Alcohol: 14.5% 

Cooperage and Elevage: Aged for 19 months in 225L and 500L barrels: 51% new French oak and 49% used

Fermentation: 3-day cold soak with twice daily pump-overs. 14-day fermentation with a mix of delestages and pump-overs for cap management. 17-day total maceration. Fermented with 21% whole cluster. 

Cases Produced: 742 cases

Vineyard Notes: 34% Rancho Real (Santa Maria Valley), 33% Yellow Fox Trot (Santa Barbara County), 18% Kiler Canyon (Willow Creek), 7% Duvarita (Santa Barbara County), 4% Adelaida Estate, 4% Bassetti Ranch (SLO Coast)