Lot 16 2023 Napa Valley Syrah

Best Syrah Ever? Heck Yeah! 

Back up the truck? HECK YEAH!

Sourced from the best Syrah blocks in the massive, legendary "vineyard that must not be named" that straddles Atlas Peak to Pritchard Hill, Lot 16 is an absolutely stunning wine and I believe the best Syrah I have ever bottled. Normally priced at $100/bottle, it is yours today for the ridiculous price of just $199/case DELIVERED!

Folks, this is Syrah turned up to 11. Now, don't take that the wrong way...this is not fat, overwrought, overdone shite. This fantastic Syrah is, indeed, pure dynamite but it is precision-built dynamite guided by one of Napa's premier consulting winemakers along with the wineries own rising star winemaker. Everything here is in proportion: massive structure, massive complexity, all chiseled from stone and perfectly balanced. Yummy and hedonistic yet, at the same time, restrained and elegant. I'm pretty sure (inside info) this is the best Syrah they've ever produced and purely a function of the marketplace that any of it made its way into my hands. Trust me on this one Syrah-lovers!

WOW color, inky and opaque, this is clearly a massively concentrated wine. Brawny, meaty and broad-shouldered, it is also hugely aromatic with a crazy complex bouquet of ripe plum, blackberry pie, graham cracker, smoked meat and bacon fat with a kiss of iodine and cedar. As it opens, the bouquet is complexed with cocoa, lavender and red rock. Rich, ripe and seamless on entry, you quickly encounter a massive wall of chewy, red-rock coated tannins that crash and unfurl ripe black and blue fruit wrapped in chocolate and lifted with red rock, raspberry and savory cocoa notes in an epic finish of chocolate, red rock, plum and blackberry that literally persists for minutes.  Massively concentrated but beautifully knit together, this is an absolutely stunning, palate-staining wine that will easily live another 20 years. 

100% Syrah
100% Single-Vineyard
70-80% new French oak
15% alc.
~300 cases produced