Region - Idaho
January 12, 2012
This is 100% Syrah from Kiona vineyards, on Red Mountain. It pins the meter at 15% alcohol without tiring out the palate. Silky and substantial, with flavors of raspberry, black cherry and red licorice, and scents of violets, rose petals and hints of cracked pepper.
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January 12, 2012
There is just 9% Cabernet in the blend. Smooth and light, with lean flavors showing herb and bark. The tannins have a green edge to them, and perhaps as a result, the vanilla flavors seem to stick out rather awkwardly.
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Kestrel Merlot - 2004
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January 12, 2012
Ripe and fruity, loaded with soft, plush, blackberry/black cherry fruit. This is a sweet, soft, open and forward style—a rather dramatic shift in style that was sparked, no doubt, by newly-installed, California-trained winemaker Bob Bertheau, who guided this vintage from the start. Though delicious and ripe, it could stand to be tightened up a bit.
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January 12, 2012
Features beautiful integration of oak spice and waxy, pear-like fruit. Seamless and multidimensional, the flavors unfold in your mouth and seduce you with their balance, lingering gently on the finish.
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January 12, 2012
This is Merlot, with a little Cab Franc and Malbec in the blend; fragrant and soft, with incense and cinnamon in the nose and the mouth. The fruit is dark–– blackberry and black cherry––and the tannins lightly grainy. A nice toasty finish and a lick of espresso firm it up through the finish.
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January 12, 2012
Opens with broad, rich flavors of black cherry, but then turns one-dimensional. The finish hits a wall, with tannins still herbal and not quite ripe.
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January 12, 2012
Young, sharp, and spicy, with underlying layers of peach, apricot, Meyer lemon, butter and caramel. This clearly needs a lot more cellar time to reach its full potential, but it is already a lovely wine to sip at meal’s end.
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January 12, 2012
A young wine, this is still resolving itself in the bottle, with astringent tannins, a hint of sweet cracker and rich, raspberry fruit flavors drenched in wet stone. Good concentration and persistence, with threads of moist earth, cola and tanned leather.
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Gorman Syrah - 2007
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January 12, 2012
A good, hearty, substantial Lemberger, brimming with plush boysenberry fruit dotted with black pepper. It’s broadly tannic, certainly one of the best Lems in Washington.
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January 12, 2012
This wine captures the particular spicy, citrus character of Wahluke Slope Syrah. Though it doesn’t quite get there texturally, it starts off well with a burst of smoked meat and high-toned cherry fruit. There’s a streak of mint also, and that, plus the deep, almost black hue, suggests that more concentrated fruit will follow.
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