Current Release:

The 2009 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 2011.
• Barrel use is undefined and unimportant – we blindly taste them all and pick the best ones.

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