Winery - Consilience
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Lush in ripe cherry fruit, powerfully spiced, crisp in acids, nicely oaked, and with a fine, silky texture, this is a picture perfect South Coast, cool-climate Pinot Noir. It also has a rich earthiness, and retains the delicacy and elegance that varietal demands.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This tremendous wine is from Fess Parker’s estate vineyard in the northeastern Santa Ynez Valley. It is very ripe in black cherry and blackberry fruit. Yet its smoked meat and white pepper notes give it a distinct Rhônish quality. It’s a big, flamboyant wine, but the soft sweetness of the tannins makes it drinkable now.
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Consilience Syrah - 2000
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very good wine, with cherry-berry-mocha fruit and a dusty tinge of spice. It’s the quality of the tannins and the overall balance that lend this wine harmony and power.
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Consilience Syrah - 2001
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Boasts concentrated ripe cherries and berries, but also enough volatility to deter a couple of our tasters. Pepper and earth flavors are savory, but the wine finishes a bit hot and sweet-tasting.
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Consilience Syrah - 2002
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Shows that it is possible to bottle a high-alcohol wine (16%, in this case) that’s still reasonably balanced. Blackberry, coffee and molasses notes are intense and tasty, while the mouthfeel is richly textured. Blackberry fruit powers through some chewy tannins on the finish, suggesting that a few years of aging isn’t out of the question.
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Consilience Syrah - 2002
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Perplexing wine, with promising hints of smoke, chocolate, plums and blackberries, but also a distressing lack of depth and texture.
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Consilience Syrah - 2001
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a rich, full-bodied wine with the weight and density of an oaky Chard. Has flavors of ripe white peaches, bananas and tapioca, with a trace of white chocolate on the finish, but it’s dry.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a young, immature Syrah you’ll want to have with something big and rich, to help tame the somewhat woody-tasting tannins. Berry, coffee and vanilla flavors are mouthfilling and intense, but will they measure up to the tannins in the long run?
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Consilience Syrah - 2002
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There may be some botrytis here, it’s so unctuous and sweet with apricot and honey flavors. It’s good, crisp stuff, but it’s not a dry table wine.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark, hot in alcohol and very low in acids, with chocolate, blackberry and blueberry flavors, but at least it’s dry. Will be pleasant with a backyard barbecue.
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