| Current
Release: 2007
UPSLOPE Syrah
is soldout.
Futures
Offering:
The
2008 UPSLOPE Syrah represents the best 6 barrels
in the winery for the vintage. It contains the best syrah from
the year’s production regardless of vineyard, clone, barrel
type, or yeast selection. Candidate barrels are selected blind
from our 40-some designated syrah barrels. Each barrel is outspoken,
but also melds and enhances the final blend. Now in its fifth
vintage, it is deep and extracted, but with elegance and smoothness
that only careful blending can produce. It is a statement –
our highest ideal of what fine Syrah can and should be. (153 cases
produced)
• Most fruit was stemmed but not crushed. Intact, whole
berries were placed in small bin boxes for fermentation.
Typically, one or two barrels are foot stomped and fermented
as whole clusters.
• Fermented on the skins for 14 days after a 48 hour cold
soak.
• Aged 18 months in barrel.
• Wild, RC212, D254, and PDM yeast used.
• Unfined and lightly filtered.
• Bottled in April 2010.
• Barrel use is undefined and unimportant – we blindly
taste them all and pick the best ones.
Purchase
this wine now at our Online
Store.
Retail
Price $75.00
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