Deep Sea White Hawk Vineyard Santa Barbara Syrah 2008
We opened this tasty full throttle Shiraz for a casual weeknight sipper by the fire on a frosty cold winter night. Looking back through my Blogposts and tasting notes, its been ten months and tastings of six other wines from this producer since we last featured this Deep Sea Syrah, the label that started our whole discovery and exploration of this Producer. As posted earlier, like another Syrah that I hold in my cellar that I discovered under the same circumstances, I found this downstate at Friar Tuck's, a wine merchant with stores across Central Illinois cities and suburban St Louis, Missouri. A few years ago I discovered Flinders Run Flinders Ranges Shiraz there and went back and bought out all that they had. Downstate for a client meeting, last winter, I picked this up to to try with a carry out rib dinner back at my hotel. I went back the next day and bought out their complete inventory. On a return visit they had more and I bought it all again. Both labels offered a big fruity Shiraz in the style we love, not available in Chicagoland, (although their highly recommended Cabernet and Pinot Noir, and their Red Blend can be found), at a high QPR - Quality Price Ratio. It might be that this was perhaps a Negociant release and thus unfortunately may have been one and done.
This Syrah is made with grapes from the White Hawk
vineyard in Santa Barbara County. It is aged for eighteen months in French Oak barrels.
Dark inky purple, full bodied, thick, concentrated, chewy black and blue
berry fruits with a layer of alcohol, tones of caramel and vanilla,
turning to hints of black pepper and mint on a moderate tannin laced
lingering finish.
RM 91 points.
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http://friartuckonline.com/
