Made from 100% Syrah, this wine shows Zaca Mesa’s house style of exceptionally ripe, heady fruit flavors tucked into a balanced, dry wine. It’s as lush as velvet in the mouth, with complex flavors of blackberries, anise, cocoa and black pepper. Feels soft and light and yet powerful and insistent at the same time. Drink now–2013. ——S.H.(11/1/2011)—— 93