94 Points - Wine Enthusiast
This richly textured, bold Syrah pairs particularly well with grilled meats and vegetables, wild game, or beef stew.
Vineyard
Hampton Vineyard is a located in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County, renowned for producing high-quality Syrah grapes. The vineyard is characterized by its southern exposure, gentle slope, and gravelloam soils, contributing to world-class Syrah with notes of blackberry, blueberry, earth, pepper, and smoked meat.
Appellation: Santa Barbara County
Varietal Composition: 100% Syrah
Vineyard Source: 100% Hampton Vineyard located in the Santa Ynez Valley
Aging: Aged for 21 months in 100% French oak, of which 46% was new
Cooperage: Francois Freres, Sirugue
Harvest Brix: 26.8
Acid: 0.580 g/100mL
pH: 3.80
Alcohol: 14.9%
Production: 328 cases
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93 Points, Wine Enthusiast
Polished and elegantly layered Grenache, Mourvèdre and Syrah offers red plum and black cherry, with hints of cigar box, forest floor, bay, baking spices, light pepper and vanilla on the nose. Expressive black raspberry, sassafras and smoky pepper flavors that linger with salted dark chocolate, red plum, cherry with notes of pepper on the palate.
93 Points, Wine Enthusiast
Dark fruit aromas of black raspberry, blackberry and black cherry steer the aromatics backed by baking spices, anise and lavender. A touch of Syrah to add tannin and depth. On the palate, black cherry and blackberry preserve shine through rounded out by herbs de Provence, dark chocolate and vanilla. A gorgeous expressive wine!