2017 Syrah - Pelletiere Estate Winery

Wild dark cherry, green olive, tart blackberry. Ripe strawberry flesh, crushed lavender, young blueberry. Green peppercorn and grilled herbs, brisket crust and dry rub. Mulberry, red plum, and brambly raspberry collide elegantly with thyme and tea leaf in an attack bursting with impressively vibrant fruit and herbal complexity. Fresh violet emerges to complement a dousing of pretty floral overtones offset by sage and green tobacco. Charcoal gracefully imparts a captivating smoky backbone softened slightly by notes of coffee and clove. Lively, well balanced, and beautifully restrained; containing interestingly gripping limestone minerality that rounds out its nicely savory profile. Medium plus in body with medium tannin and wonderfully lifted acidity. This 2017 Syrah by Pelletiere Estate Winery is an impressive and classically styled red from the Willow Creek District of Paso Robles.

Paso Robles has emerged as a world class region for viticulture thanks to its warm days, cold nights, and extreme concentration of heavily calcareous soils. This bottling, crafted by Pelletiere Estate Winery unique Syrah grown in their estate vineyard in the Willow Creek District of West Paso, perfectly exemplifies what makes this terrific growing region so spectacular and unique. It contains a gorgeous fruit profile that is amply ripe without being over-saturated or sweet, and it balances that fruit with a medley of herbal and savory complexity. Impressions of sandy earth and limestone soils are clearly evident and further increase the nuance and subtlety that this single vineyard offering expresses. An extremely well executed and delicious wine through and through.