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2013 Efeste Jolie Bouche Syrah Boushey Vineyard Yakima Valley 750 ml

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Legendary Viticulturalist’s Brilliance

Legendary Viticulturalist’s Brilliance

Wine Spectator’s highest-rated $30 Syrah in Washington in 2013 is the 93-point Efeste Jolie Bouche from the famed Boushey Vineyard. With previous vintages landing on Spectator’s Top 100 list, this current release was nicknamed “Silk & Iron” for its velour-like texture and stunning minerality. Our 50-case allocation of this killer $30 Syrah — 32% off market price — is going to zip right out the door.

Boushey Vineyard has a reputation like no other in Washington, recognized by Wine Enthusiast, the Seattle Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and others as one of the state’s greatest vineyards, perhaps without equal for Syrah. Award-winning legendary viticulturist Dick Boushey is choosy, working only with a select group of elite wineries, so releases off this plot are rarely inexpensive. That makes this 2013 Efeste Jolie Bouche Syrah a brilliant exception

Under winemaker Peter Devison, “quality has been wonderfully consistent” at Efeste, according to Antonio Galloni’s Vinous. “The red wines are purer than ever.” That’s due largely     to the impeccable fruit Devison insists on working with. One of the cooler sites in the prestigious Yakima Valley AVA, Boushey allows for longer hang time than in neighboring areas, making for exquisite concentration without overripeness. Planted on high-elevation hillside blocks, up to 1,300 feet, the vines are stressed by hot, rocky soil of shallow loam and fractured basalt, endowing the wine with its trademark layered velour texture and mineral backbone.

The warm 2013 vintage favored late-ripening Syrah, with a chilly mid-harvest lull infusing Boushey’s Syrah fruit with bracing acidity matched by extraordinary ripeness. Thanks to a minimalist regimen post-harvest, this 93 point Syrah boasts a terrific layered concentration tempered with deep spice elements that call to mind Northern Rhône Cornas, only dripping with New World richness. To call it the Washington red value buy of the season might be an understatement.