Lafond 2011 Lafond Vineyard Syrah (Sta. Rita Hills)

Country: US / Lafond Vineyard
Variety: Syrah California
Winery: Lafond / Sta. Rita Hills

The nose on this wine is delicate at first but then opens up quickly into ripe blackberry, marionberry jam, asphalt and grapeseed oil aromas. It’s juicy on the palate, with ripe black cherries and wild berries, but clings to a graphite character in the core as well as a bit of espresso-bean bitterness.