This comes at you waves of flavor, starting with blackberries, coffee and plums. Fruits sweeten on the mid-palate, adding some blueberry to the blackberry. The espresso changes to unsweetened cocoa. Leather shows up at the end of the mid-palate and lingers with black fruit on the finish.
WHO: Dutton-Goldfield
WHAT: Syrah
WHERE: California, Russian River Valley
WHEN: 2005
HOW MUCH: $35.99