Syrah Napa Valley 2007
Color: deep, black cherry with touches of ruby and pink on the rim
On the nose: beautiful interaction between oak, grenadine, cotton candy, vanilla, lavender and tobacco
On the palate: round mouth feel with touches of caramel, thyme, cassis and fresh prune, lingering on rose flavored candy
| Vintage: | 2007 |
| Wine Type: | Medium Red Wine |
| Appellation: | Napa Valley |
Blend:
100% Syrah
If you were strong enough to wait for perfect ripeness, 2007 is a great vintage. The small berry size allowed for highly concentrated and powerful wines where you could really push extraction.
Early bud-break and a mild, nearly perfect summer resulted in an early start to 2007 harvest. A heat spike in September pushed sugars high and hurried wineries to harvest their grapes. The weather then turned cool and harvest slowed down to give us great complexity. Rain hit the north coast in late September and early October which caused many winemakers to get the remaining fruit picked as soon as possible, but we held back. We decided to let the fruit hang. It was a large risk, but it paid off because the rain was followed by 3 weeks of great weather which yielded some amazing flavors and balance because of the small berry size and ripe fruit.
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