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2005 The Ojai Vineyard Syrah Thompson Vineyard Santa Barbara County
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2005 The Ojai Vineyard Syrah Thompson Vineyard Santa Barbara County

Producer: The Ojai Vineyard
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Syrah/Shiraz
Origin: California
Region: Central Coast
Appellation: Santa Barbara

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93 Points | Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine
92 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009

($38) Inky purple. Exotically perfumed bouquet offers spicy raspberry and blackberry scents, along with notes of violet and black olive. Classic syrah on the nose and the palate, with sweet red berry and spice flavors gaining weight and richness with air. Juicy, focused and gently chewy on the long, penetrating finish, which leaves an exotic apricot pit note behind.

93 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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04/20/2011
by Murray13787146
Just spectacular. A real deal for every drinking!
Ojai Thompson Syrah
04/22/2011
by clark12579860
Good fruit flavors with full and pleasing nose, but a bit light in body and short on length of finish with too much acid still left in it. I would not buy it again.

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