91 |
JamesSuckling.com |
Big, sweet blackberry and bilberry nose with a hint of smoke. The bright fruit easily balances the generous, supple tannins and the lively acidity lifts the dry finish nicely. Drink now or hold.
August 2018 |
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91 |
Wine Review Online |
Ripe and succulent and creamy in texture, with gorgeous blackberry and black cherry fruit, this is a sexpot of a wine that never quite tips over into being obvious or grapey. Even though derived from a relatively hot year, there’s enough acidity in this to lend freshness, and there’s also enough fine-grained tannin to provide focus and grip. The oak is nicely reserved, allowing the fruit to shine, but there are some nice savory undertones showing that keep this from seeming simple and fruity. This gets most of its (entirely deserved) points from the sub-category of sheer deliciousness.
Michael Franz - July 2020 |
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90 |
View from the Cellar |
The 2014 vintage was the first Syrah I had tasted from Bodegas Caudalia, which is grown in a vineyard up in the Baja Montana at five hundred meters above sea level. The wine is fermented and raised in cement tanks for twenty-seven months prior to bottling. The 2015 is a fine follow-up to the excellent 2014, coming in at a ripe 14.5 percent octane, but offering up sweet dark berries, pepper, spit-roasted game, a touch of chocolate, fine soil tones, woodsmoke and a hint of violet in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, and complex, with a good core, ripe, buried tannins and good length and grip on the focused and well-balanced finish. There is just a whisper of backend heat here, but it is manageable and the wine is once again, impressive on both the nose and palate (and nowhere near as reductive as the 2014 was at a similar stage). 2019-2040.
October 2019 |
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90 |
Vinous Media |
Bright purple. Smoky, spice-tinged black/blue fruit aromas open up slowly to show hints of violet and cured meat. Gently sweet and focused on the palate, offering bitter cherry and cassis flavors sharpened by a strong jolt of cracked pepper, which adds back-end bite. Supple tannins build slowly on the clinging finish, echoing the smoke and spice notes. This one would make a good ringer in a blind flight of Crozes-Hermitages. (Fermented and aged for 27 months in concrete tanks.)
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Spain’s Northern Regions Keep it Cool – March 2019 |
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89 |
International Wine Review |
Organic fruit, hand harvested, aged 27 months in cement. Offering a meaty, forest floor, fish sauce nose, this Syrah is full and silky with smoky, meaty, bacon hints along with blackberry on palate. Tannic finish and a bit short on finesse. 14.5% alc.
"Spanish Wines of Value and Quality" - June 20, 2019 |
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