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16¼/20
Laughing Stock Vineyards Amphora Syrah +26/09 2016
Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaThis Small Cap release of Amphora is a big departure from the first three years of the project, when their two 500L terracotta clay amphorae contained white grapes to make an orange wine (viognier, roussanne). This year syrah (all Perfect Hedge Vineyard on East Bench, Osoyoos) received the natural treatment, wild fermented and left untouched, on the skins, for eight months. Textured violets, ripe plum, cassis, hints of medicinal black cherry, dusky thorns, with moderately grippy tannins lining the edges and an evident stony, concrete texture throughout. The alcohol, at 14.9 percent, is warm and little bit sweet on the finish, and is the only blip on this otherwise gentle wine. Best when decanted or opened in advance (give it a day) and allowed space. The Amphora effect here has opened up the wine, but taken away some of the power, density and weight we loved in the 2015 barrel aged syrah.Tasted: 19 November 2017Tasted by: Treve Ring & Anthony GismondiPrices:| BC | $49.99 | 750ml | wine club only |
Arterra Wines Canada
Principle Fine Wines
Grape: Shiraz/SyrahUPC: 850451001947
Creekside UnBroken Press Reserve Syrah 2012Clos du Soleil Grower's Series Syrah Middle Bench Vineyard 2015
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