Winery Tasting Note: Our aim with this wine is to capture Santa Barbara County’s potential for gorgeous cool-climate Syrah. This 2021 bottling does that doubly so, as this vintage was particularly cool for our breezy locale. The wine exudes Syrah’s exotic and botanical side—it floods your nose with scents of spiced dark berries and herby olives, bacon fat, and big wafts of violets and peonies. At once there is density and suppleness, with fine easy-going tannin. After a wash of sweet blueberry and raspberry it turns peppery and savory, with a brothy meatiness and mineral spine building throughout the finish.

91 Points - Jeb Dunnuck