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Syrah

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Description: Our Syrah will tattoo juice stains to your chin. It will also tattoo awesomeness to your soul. It’s characterized by an herbaceous, almost dilly bouquet that finishes with sweet fruit, minerality, and flinty wet-stone notes that impart a Northern Rhone-style quality. This wine has a subtle intensity, a strong finish and is a bright magenta color. The fruit is from Skyline and it’s aged in new American and French hybrid barrels. Drink this with red meats, offal, herbs, spices, brown sugar, chocolate, or not. This is your new infatuation.

Varietal Definition
Syrah:
Syrah is the eight hundred pound gorilla of Rhone grapes! In the vineyard and the winery, Syrah is typically an easy grape to work with - healthy, early ripening, resistant to mildew and rot; suitable for winemaking in a variety of styles. The wines from Syrah are tannic without being harsh. The wines will have a taste and smell of dark blue fruit like blackberries and blackcurrant, with a strong spicy side where one can find freshly ground pepper and other spices. Syrah is famous for its part in the French blends, such as Côtes du Rhone and Châteauneuf du Pape.


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