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Halcon Estate Syrah Alturas Yorkville Highlands 2016 - First Bottle

Reviews

94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - Read

The 2016 Syrah Alturas is a wonderful wine, offering up a youthful but superb bouquet of violets, cracked pepper, grilled meat and crunchy cassis. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, concentrated and tensile, with fine-grained tannins, a deep core of crunchy fruit and a long, sapid finish. While this is already delicious, it's emphatically a young wine, and the real fireworks will begin when it has five years on the clock. Cropped at 1.25-tons per acre and fermented with 50% whole clusters, this lovely Syrah from Halc?n wouldn't be out of place in a flight of great Cornas. It's also shockingly good value.

95 Jeb Dunnuck - Read

I tasted two samples of the 2016 Syrah Alturas, one fermented with 100% whole clusters, and one with 50% whole clusters. Both were serious barrel samples possessing terrific notes of blackcurrants, cracked black peppercorns, meat and olives, full-bodied richness, solid density and ripe, yet certainly present, tannin. It’s loaded with potential, and is reminiscent of Côte Rôtie from the northern part of the appellation. 93-95

92 Vinous - Read

The 2016 Alturas (Syrah) is polished, refined and sensual, with lovely energy backing up the blueberry, mint, lavender and black pepper notes. Medium in body and gracious, the Alturas is an exquisite Syrah that has so much to offer. All the best elements of the house style come through nicely. I very much like the precision here.

Technical Details

BlendSyrah
WinemakerPaul Gordon
CountryUS
RegionMendocino County
AppellationYorkville Highlands
VineyardHalcon Estate
Alcohol13.5%

Halcon Estate Syrah Alturas Yorkville Highlands 2016

Syrah Blends | US

WA94, JD93-95, VN92

$29.95 | 750mL

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Savvy drinker/collectors will already be running to grab what they can of this blockbuster deal --- HALCON! British ex-pats Paul and Jackie Gordon’s cool-climate wines are HOTTER than ever these days, and the wines from their 15 acre estate are outrageously good and critically acclaimed. It’s kind of a miracle we have access to enough to even offer you (after we loaded up our trunks of course)!

Located in the Yorkville Highlands between Anderson Valley and Alexander Valley, they took their cues from the likes of Wells Guthrie (Copain) and Steve Lagier/Carole Meredith (Lagier Meredith --- Syrah EXPERTS). These are brilliant wines. READ THE REVIEWS! They are low-alcohol, deeply complex, perfumey, rich and wildly fun to drink. This is a no-brainer, you guys.

About the Producer

British expats Paul and Jackie Gordon fell in love with California wine made a bold move purchasing a remote vineyard in the hills of the Yorkville Highlands between Cloverdale and Anderson Valley. They then palnted 15 acres with the help of seasoned winemaker Wells Guthrie of Copain Wines in Russian River Valley, Carole Meredith and Steven Lagier of Lagier Meredith Vineyard on Mount Veeder in Napa Valley, and Scott Shapley of ROAR. with a minimalist approach to winemaking and a hope to let the terroir of this unique site shine, and they do just that.