This is 100% Syrah, delicious, fragrant and loaded with spice. It’s a blend from several different Washington AVAs, and has just the right mix of citrus, pepper, smoke, spice, acid, toast and tannin, bringing in elements from all of them. The fruit is sweet and brambly; the herbal elements are just right, adding notes of leaf and tobacco. There is a whiff of smoke and bacon fat, and the citrus/acid component lifts it nicely.——P.G.(11/1/2007)—— 91