2001 Granite Crown
120 cases produced 50% Syrah, 50% Cabernet Sauvignon
From the same plot that gave us the marvelous Syrah for the legendary bottlings of our Syrah Première Cuvée, this offering shows velvety, deep fruit flavors that suggest mulberry and blueberry. The distinctive Renaissance terroir is evident in the minerality and in the remarkable depth of fruit. This is a very large-scale wine that, while drinking well now, will reward long-term aging. The refined tannin is very well worked and there is no hint of harshness while maintaining firmness on the palate.
Pre-release Club allocation 12 bottles (public allocation 6 bottles).
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Awards
Silver Medal - Taster's Guild International 2008Excellent - Frederic Koeppel 10.10.07
"The wine offers notes of very spicy red and black cherries, black currants and plums the color is so purple that it’s almost black. It’s delicious, warm and ripe in the mouth but also formidably dry, tannic and austere, dense, dusty and chewy. After a few minutes in the glass, the wine picks up touches of coffee and bitter chocolate and macerated plums. 120 cases. Great potential from 2009 to 2015 or ‘17." Excellent
"Inky purple in color this wine has a beautifully savory nose of stewed prunes, black olives, licorice, and Worcestershire sauce. In the mouth it is gorgeously silky with flavors of cassis and damp, wet earth. Dusty tannins add to the complex, resonant flavors that are somewhere between burly and delicate. Let's call it "burlesque" with a long finish that has just a hint of playful grapeyness to it at the end. Quite a unique wine that throws an enormous amount of sediment in the aging process, something which I always take to be an excellent sign. This wine is still a baby and can go another decade at least." Score around 9.5
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