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Bartier Bros. Syrah Cerqueira Vineyard 2019
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaBartier Syrah is grown within a chip shot of the winery on Cerqueira Vineyard over the Black Sage Gravel Terrace. Bartier specializes in funnelling all the nuances of the desert surrounding his vineyard into the bottle, lending this slick version of syrah a floral, scrubby, garrigue undertone with a rich mineral finish. The attack is of a similar construct with savoury blueberries and wild silver sage-scented blackberry jam. Youthful and almost drinkable now, this will repay five to seven years in the bottle, if not longer. Lamb burgers are the match now. The fruit is hand-picked, destemmed, and crushed into 5-ton closed fermenters with 15% whole clusters and macerated for 22 days. Post ferment, it spent 16 months in 225L neutral French barrels and a neutral oak tank before heading to bottle in spring.Tasted: 23 April 2022Tasted by: Anthony GismondiPrices:| BC | $30.34 | 750ml | private wine stores |
Grape: Shiraz/SyrahCSPC: 275149UPC: 628055147121
