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90
/100
Reviews
8
professional
Vintages
1
2001
Other
90/100
Syrah
NV
Community Reviews
1717
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89.9
Avg Score
94
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Taster #5162
· Dec 14, 2011
94/100
Amazing how well this wine held up! Just spectacular. Great balance, wonderful bouquet and fruit forward, but not overpowering. A great example of a wine that just matured over time and is at it's peak.
2001 vintage
Taster #0056
· Mar 20, 2008
Color is deep red violet. Nose is pretty volatile, edging from black fruits more towards ripe raspberries, pepper, and meat. The palate follows, with tart acidity and resolved tannins. Good, but probably not improving at this point, particularly at 15.1% alcohol. Just a touch of heat on the finish. Drink up.
2001 vintage
Taster #7224
· Jun 6, 2007
89/100
Starts with a nose of beef blood, smoky blackcurrant, hot rocks, a touch of grapefruit. The palate shows bright flavors of cherry, cranberry, salty black olive, grilled meat and citrus. The finish is rather tart and citrusy with a touch of rubbery reduction. After a couple of hours the nose picks up some sappy cherry, a dusty face powder note and dried herb. The finish smooths and adds an interesting herbal edge. This wine has improved since release but I …
2001 vintage
Taster #7501
· Mar 31, 2007
OC Virtual Rosella's Syrah Tasting (OC and Virtual For Parker BB) : Tasted from magnum. Ryan called the nose on this dead on--'balsamic'. Also some caramel, faint pepper and a plummy core with what I perceived as a little sweet, too. Not bad but not my favorite of the night.
2001 vintage
Taster #0912
· Nov 17, 2006
93/100
Singing and layered nose of red grapefuit, meat, black fruits and smoke. The palate has a velvety mouthfeel. Medium to full bodied on entry. Seamless across the midpalate with fine tannin and fresh underlying acidity. Some white pepper on the back palate. Excellent fruit, complexity and great lift. Long smoky finish. Drinking at what must be its prime.
2001 vintage
Taster #7224
· Oct 6, 2006
89/100
A big nose of bloody steak, dark berry, grapefruit and a little white pepper. Dark fruit and pepper coat the mouth. Big and fat in the mouth but at the same time fresh and vibrant. Good length on the peppery finish. Time in the decanter really brought the fruit to the fore.
2001 vintage
Taster #4152
· Sep 28, 2006
86/100
This was the worst bottle of Novy wine I can every remember consuming. It had the white pepper characteristic typical of the Rosella's syrah but didn't have the fruit I can remember in the past. Perhaps a bad bottle?
2001 vintage
Taster #1741
· May 10, 2006
92/100
Another great performance that echoes my last tasting from a few months ago, except add loads of smoky charcoal on the nose tonight!
2001 vintage
Taster #0771
· May 6, 2006
This wine is continuing to drink beautifully. On day 1 there is wonderfully rich blackberry/raspberry fruit with ruby red grapefruit acidity that leads to a very long finish. On day 2 the acidity is showing a more general citrus element without the strong grapefruit notes but the blackberry/raspberry profile is still rich and very long. Simply a fantastic syrah and my favorite Rosella's to date. I do not see this improving from here so I highly recommend drinking this over …
2001 vintage
Taster #7501
· Mar 17, 2006
Still very dark but maybe starting to show a little browning at the edges. Also threw some sediment. Would say this is textbook Rosella's. The aromatics are hard to miss: big white pepper, game and funk. The bouquet is pretty enormous, even at this stage. The palate: soft with that terroir driven grapefruit acidity that is all Rosella’s, along with espresso. The acidity of this wine keeps it alive and perhaps this goes another couple of years. In line with …
2001 vintage
Taster #1741
· Feb 20, 2006
92/100
Decanted for 20 minutes. Medium-bodied wine that is dark ruby/purple in color. On the nose, dark berry fruit, cracked black pepper, and light barnyard funk. On the palate, a melange of blueberries and blackberries wrapped in a well-balanced, brightly acidic finish 30 seconds in length. The tannins are resolved to a nice point right now...still present, but very smooth. This wine is drinking spectacularly well right now...well done Adam...I could drink one of these every week or two the rest …
2001 vintage
Taster #7501
· Dec 31, 2005
I haven't tried this particular bottling in over year and boy, it continues to get more polished and the parts are all there. This bottle, along with the '02 and '03 Basetti Vineyard Hug Syrahs, were my favorites wines of the 30 we had at our recent Offline. I won't pull punches: I'm a huge fan of Novy and pimp their wines as often as I can. I love the QPR and the terroirs that Adam seems to display through …
2001 vintage
Taster #0771
· Dec 5, 2005
The last bottled of this I opened a year ago was shut down so I figured what did I have to lose by letting my remaining bottles sleep. Well, fortunately this turned out to be a very wise decision. The color was a plum/purple with just a touch of lightening at the rim. The nose was very Rhonish with blackberry, smoke, meat, herbs, white pepper and floral notes. The mid-palate is rich plummy/blackberry with bright acidity on the back of …
2001 vintage
Taster #0771
· Oct 24, 2004
Dark plum/purple in color. The nose was not giving up a lot. The mid-palate showed lots of blackberry with nice supporting acidity and a medium length spicey finish. The wine showed best after being decanted for several hours. This wine may be in a closed phase and I will wait awhile before opening another.
2001 vintage
Taster #0771
· Jan 27, 2004
Inky, glass staining purple. Nose - smoke, pepper, asian spice, black fruit. Palate - smokey,spicey black fruit, dark rich black cherry, blackberry. Finish - beautiful core of acidity that lifts the fruit and leads to a long rich, smooth fininsh. Should age well but drinking so well now why wait??
2001 vintage
Taster #5752
· Jan 1, 2004
excellent
2001 vintage
Taster #6620
· Jul 16, 2003
84/100
From 750ml. Big powerful wine. Perhaps a little over the top for my palate. Rich chocolate, espresso and cherry notes but I also detected some funky earthiness and green pepper nuances. 84 points.
2001 vintage