In its youth, concentrated dark fruit—blackberry, blueberry, plum skin, currant—are balanced by black tea, herbs, raspberry and sweet smoke. We wanted to create a wine with enough backbone to mature for 14 years without fading. As the wine ages, big fruit gracefully makes way for flavors of olive, wood resin and bacon fat. Tenor Syrah is an example of how precision and polish can turn a big grape into a balanced, composed, and eminently drinkable wine. This Syrah doesn’t just want to wow you for a glass, it’s designed to keep you intrigued all the way through the bottle.
Vintage Notes
The 2015 Tenor Syrah was crafted from a couple vineyards across two separate AVAs in Washington State: Columbia Valley and Walla Walla Valley. Farmed using sustainable practice, they were then hand-harvested over several early mornings in the late fall. Upon arriving in the winery, each cluster was hand-sorted, de-stemmed and re-sorted and then fermented in stainless steel (76%) and concrete (24%) tanks. Using only the free-run wine, it was then moved to custom 500L French oak puncheons (67% new) for just under 2 years of cellaring. After nearly 50 individual evaluations by our winemaking team, and without fining or filtration, only 228 cases were produced from these 500L puncheons.
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