92pts Wine Enthusiast

Full bodied, deeply concentrated and massively structured, this wine is packed tight with just-ripe fruit, smoky spices, cloves and singed sage. A rich blanket of fine-grained tannins wraps those tightly, suggesting several years in the cellar for the wine to mature. Best from 2024.

91pts Wine & Spirits

The majority of this wine comes from a vineyard in the Clements Hills of Lodi, west of the Amador County line. Combined with fruit from the foothills, it makes a light and supple syrah with plenty of cracked-black-peppercorn spice. The blueberry and strawberry ripeness fills the wine’s tight, granitic tannins, lasting without any sense of excess weight.

Winemaker Notes

These vines are cultivated west (ouest) of the Terre Rouge winery on small, sandy loam hills (côtes) just outside the Amador County appellation, a few miles from the Mokelumne River. In the tradition of their other Syrahs, this wine has great flavor intensity and mouthfeel.