Red
Zaca Mesa Black Bear Block Estate Grown and Bottled Syrah (Santa Ynez Valley)
Santa Ynez Valley · Central Coast · United States
Fact sheet
- Type
- Red
- Grape
- Syrah
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Santa Ynez Valley · Central Coast
- Appellation
- Santa Ynez Valley
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
cordeiro assado · carne de caça · queijos curados · churrasco · carnes defumadas
Rated vintages
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200996 pts
If the first duty of a wine is to be delicious, this tiny production bottling succeeds beyond all measure. The Black Bear Block is almost always Zaca Mesa's best Syrah among its many releases, and so it is again in 2009. Take one sip and you're dazzled by the refined tannins, dr…