This is pure varietal, as are most Arbor Crest wines, and expresses a pleasing purity of fruit. Sappy and brimming with flavors of raspberries, boysenberries and loganberries, this young and vivid Syrah matches the ripe and juicy fruit to firm acids, and caramel and butterscotch flavors from 40% new French oak.——P.G.(6/1/2009)—— 89