This is an elegant wine that is full of silky tannins with a velvety finish. The wine opens with the flavors of Blueberries, Plum and Cherry against a sweet oak backdrop followed by cedary spices and licorice, which combine to form a long mid palate. This wine is delicately balanced with just enough tannin so that it will improve with an additional year or two of cellaring and will to continue to improve
The "Winner's Circle" Flavor Profile Syrahs are designed to show what proper vineyard selection, wine making techniques, and artful blending can do to influence syrah and create distinctive flavor profiles. These wines are harvested by winemaker direction, fermented using a variety of regimes to create a "spice rack" of wines. The resultant wines are then racked to a mixture of French oak barrels that have been selected to enhance specific flavors creating distinctive wine styles. Then the aging, finning, and racking of these wines is lot specific with the final cuvee assembled between 18 and 24 months after harvest.
Varietal Content: 100% Syrah
Appellation: Central Coast
Alcohol: 14.5%
Wine pH: 3.73
Case Production: 523 cases


