2012 Gramercy Cellars Syrah Columbia Valley

Winemaker's Notes: The 2012 vintage welcomes a new wine for us, a Columbia Valley AVA designated wine. It blends 4 vineyards – the northerly Minick and Olsen with two Walla Walla Rocks sources – SJR and Stony Vine. Minick and Olsen provide red fruit and freshness, the Rocks gives pepper, funk, smoke, depth, and structure. Red cherry, blueberry, raspberry, leather, saline, meat, smoke, funk, violets, crisp acidity and energy.

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Wine Enthusiast - "This wine is a blend of four distinctive sites—Minick and Olsen in the Yakima Valley, and SJR and Stoney Vine in the Walla Walla Valley. It pulls together the best of all of them, with brooding notes of mineral, wet stone, earthy funk, coffee, smoked meat and black and green olive. The palate steals the show, with hypnotic savory flavors that coalesce around a vibrant, extended finish. It's a textural marvel that is simply impossible to put down."