This is a good Syrah that’s dry and spicy and ready to drink now with a great burger. The blackberry flavors have earthy, tobacco and grilled meat notes. The acidity is a bit sharp. Drink up. — (5/1/2013) —86

This is a likeable Syrah for drinking now. It has soft acids and tannins that frame notes of jammy cherry and blackberry. The flavors are sweet on the midpalate, but finish dry and spicy. — (7/1/2012) —87

Too sweet for true balance, with jammy flavors of crushed blackberries, blueberries, cocoa and pepper. The tannins are lovely, but the finish is just too sugary.——S.H.(8/1/2011)—— 86

This extroverted Syrah reveals a stunningly intense nose of lavender, wild berry fruit, incense, and background oak as well as earth. Medium-bodied and lush with attractive purity and an overall sense of finesse, it is a distinctively-styled Syrah that should be given serious consideration. Moreover, it is a very good value.Tel. (805) 937-3616

Superrich and ripe, flooding the mouth with jammy flavors of raspberries, cherries, anise and pepper. A soft, rather simple wine whose lack of complexity is compensated by sheer deliciousness.——S.H.(9/1/2010)—— 87