2016 Booker Syrah Ones
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The 2016 Syrah Ones comes from a lot that didn’t make the blend for the Fracture and is all Syrah that was brought up in 80% new French oak. It’s certainly not for wimps and offers a huge, massive, unctuous style as well as terrific notes of blackcurrants, espresso, tobacco, and smoked earth. This full-bodied effort stays nicely balanced on the palate and has loads of fruit and richness, sweet tannins, and a huge finish. However, it’s going to require patience. Eric Jensen’s Booker Vineyards continues to make a ripe, sexy, pedal-to-the-metal syle of wine and these latest 2016s don’t disappoint.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
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Made of 100% Syrah aged 18 months in 100% new French oak, the very deep purple-black colored 2016 The Ones Syrah has quite an earthy/meaty nose with notions of chargrilled meats, tilled soil, fungi and asphalt over a core of black cherries, plum preserves and mulberries with a waft of cloves. Full-bodied with a brick-house frame of grainy tannins and just enough freshness, it exudes juicy black fruit and earth flavors, finishing long and savory.