2013 Exposition 3 Proprietary Red
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The 2013 Syrah Weill a Way Vineyard Exposition 3 is dried out, lacking in both fruit and freshness and also overoaked. The three wines in the Exposition series take their inspiration from Guigal’s single-vineyard Côte-Roties La Landonne, La Turque and La Mouline. I see little connection to those Syrahs, except that the Exposition wines spend extended time in oak, with a high percentage of new barrels. Exposition 3 was done with 14% Viognier and mostly destemmed fruit.
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The last of the three is the 2013 Syrah Exposition 3. Like its sibling, it is a 125-case cuvée of 84% Syrah and 16% cofermented Viognier. There was no inclusion of stems on this particular wine. This is the most La Mouline-like of the trio, no doubt because of the high percentage of Viognier, with extraordinary bacon fat, violets, lychee, black raspberry, sweet cherry, licorice and tapenade. The wine is velvety textured, full-bodied, but wonderfully pure, rich and striking. All three of these wines are incredible achievements in winemaking, and mind-blowing to someone like myself, who visited Guigal every year from 1978 to 2012 and would never have dreamed that someone in California, in addition to Manfred Krankl, could somehow pull off wines so similar to those from the Rhône Valley. Well, here they are.