2004 Syrah

Case Production

616 Cases

Blend and Vineyard Sources

• 100% Syrah
  • 25% Destiny Ridge, Horse Heaven Hills
  • 25% Goose Ridge, Columbia Valley
  • 20% Bacchus, Columbia Valley
  • 18% Ciel de Cheval, Red Mountain
  • 6% Candy Mountain, Columbia Valley
  • 6% Wooded Island, Columbia Valley

Analysis

• pH – 3.68
• Total Acidity – 0.62
• Alcohol – 14.53

Cooperage

About 40% new French, Hungarian and American oak barrels with the remaining 60% older French for 21 months. 

Winemaking

Crushed gently and dropped by gravity into 1.5 ton bins, cold soaked 48 hours, then inoculated with a variety of yeasts, hand-punched and pressed directly to barrel.  Some wine was pressed so primary fermentation was finished in the barrel while some was allowed to finish primary in the 1.5 ton bins and then pressed so that both wine finished secondary fermentation in the barrel.

Vintage

An artic blast in winter caused some damage to many vineyards but Syrah was a varietal that survived very well where other did not and came through with extracted, balanced and highly flavorful wines.

Tasting Notes

Baked plum, roasted mocha and earth aromas open to dark cherry and boysenberry flavors with mineral and toasted currant. A big wine with lots of structure, great fruit and complexity with a jammy, fleshy core and sweet, intense tannins.