Terre Rouge Ascent Syrah (Sierra Foothills)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Syrah

País

United States

Região

Sierra Foothills · Sierra Foothills

Denominação

Sierra Foothills

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201494 pts

  This Syrah is Terre Rouge's flagship, and it lives up to its reputation with more complexity and spiciness than the other wines in the portfolio. It's earthy and oaky in aroma yet full of indulgent flavor—drenched with dark berry and dark chocolate notes and cedar, anise and new…

• 201396 pts

  This is the small-production, flagship wine from the Sierra region's best producer of Rhône-style wines. Lovely, spicy, floral aromas and generous, complex and layered flavors make the wine irresistible, while its strong but velvety texture sets it up for a long life in the cell…

• 201296 pts

  This has a grand array of exotic flinty, meaty, smoky and spicy aromas. The powerful flavors taste a bit restrained at first sip, then unfold and seem to expand on the palate. Pure and brilliant layers of ripe blackberry, smoked herbs and darkest chocolate ride on an elegant tex…

• 201192 pts

  Terre Rouge's annual best of the best barrels is luxurious in leather and smoky oak, grippy tobacco flirting through the midpalate through to the end. Concentrated in brambly black fruit and a core of gamy meat, it'll expand its world in due time, the layers of complexity like a…

• 201093 pts

  Terre Rouge's Ascent is, as intended, indeed its best of the best, from a selection of worship-worthy sites strewn across the Sierra Foothills. With deep layers of black pepper, roasted game, leather and a mouthful of dust, it's structured, balanced and intense, and full of conc…

• 200993 pts

  Terre Rouge's loftiest undertaking every vintage, this Ascent is a blockbuster. It's gorgeously spicy and floral, with dark notes of pepper, violet and herb that will live long and prosper in time. Grapes used for this bottling are sourced from cool, high-elevation vineyards, pr…

• 200694 pts

  This is Terre Rouge's priciest Syrah, a barrel selection of the best lots. It's a big wine. No, make that huge. Godzilla-esque. Just explodes in the mouth with massive flavors of blackberry and black cherry jam, milk chocolate, anise, cedar and pepper. Finishes bone dry, and the…