Country: US / Red Willow Vineyard
Variety: Syrah Washington
Winery: William Church / Yakima Valley
Coming from one of the state’s top Syrah sites, this wine starts out quite aromatically closed up, with notes of brambly blue fruit and herbs, along with whiffs of orange peel and smoked meat. The flavors, in contrast, pop with electric notes of dark plum and huckleberry and lingering undercurrents of smoked meat and orange rind. Give it some time to open up and it delivers.