Soft and sweetly gentle, this Syrah has easy flavors of cherries, currants, anise, bacon and pepper. It’s a silky wine, with some complexity, and made for drinking now.——S.H.(3/1/2012)—— 87

Beautiful, irresistable Syrah, lush and sweet in fruit and oak. Soft and velvety, it offers layers of pureed raspberries, cherries, blackberries, blueberries and chocolate, with a rich edge of toasted marshmallow, gingerbread and butterscotch. Yet it’s dry, with modest alcohol.——S.H.(3/1/2008)—— 94