#proprietary red

My last one of these and fairly beautiful in several ways and a bit awkward in a few others. Deep gorgeous ruby with a bit of amber at the rim. Beautiful chalky nose reflecting hardcore berry, plentiful oak and slight tertiary polish. It’s lovely to smell, with grainy black walnut and leathery dust captured over hillside decadence and tangy verve. In the mouth: hot and spicy, the fruit showing…

We all know *proprietary* is just another word for Syrah, so you can’t help but not go into it with that perspective. Inky ruby, rather staining and offering a chubby, round nose, flush with the sort of flowery concentration we have learned to expect in newly-crowned standouts of these regions. Dark berry blackness, sweet and rotund, ashy, smoky plumes of slightly-dank cherry rising off it.…