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2009 Stolpman Vineyards Syrah Hilltops Estate Grown Santa Ynez Valley
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RP 92

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About Stolpman Vineyards

Tom and Marilyn Stolpman founded this Central Coast winery in 1990. The dry-farmed vineyard plantings here are one of the great viticultural stories of California...

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2009 Stolpman Vineyards Syrah Hilltops Estate Grown Santa Ynez Valley

Producer: Stolpman Vineyards
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Syrah/Shiraz
Origin: California
Region: Central Coast
Appellation: Santa Ynez Valley

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93(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

Bright medium ruby.  Scented, high-pitched, very pure nose offers blackberry, exotic spices, flinty minerality and a whiff of meat.  Densely packed and seamless but also sharply delineated, with a saline, smoky minerality and a bit of oak influence partly hiding the wine's inherent sweetness of fruit.  Dry, meaty, classic syrah with a wonderfully chewy, palate-saturating finish.  Showed increasing pliancy and nuance as it opened in the glass.  (ST)

92 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Multidimensional
04/04/2012
by Golubeva14105281
A lot of seemingly disconnected components make up this cuvee: spicy yet velour-textured, concentrated yet delicate, full of character yet malleable.

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Syrah

While the grape is currently grown throughout the world, the most elegant Syrahs still come from the Northern Rhone valley, particularly the appellations of Côte Rôtie, Cornas, and Hermitage. Here, steep, terraced vineyards help produce full-bodied, intense, tannic wines loaded with white pepper and red fruit. In the vineyard, Syrah is largely cooperative- vines are productive, but not overly vigorous. Skins are thick, helping the grape...
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