2020 En Chamberlin Vineyard Syrah
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The 2020 Syrah En Chamberlin Vineyard is youthfully restrained, with a savory blend of cured meat, bacon fat, exotic spice and candied orange. This is savory, nearly sultry in style, with a salty flourish up front giving way to violet-laced black fruits and sour citrus. The 2020 finishes tannic and with a bitter tinge, leaving a chalky coating on the palate as tart blackberry notes fade. Today, the En Chamberlin holds its power in reserve. There is a very bright future here.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Eric Guido, Vinous
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Ripe black raspberries, iodine, spring flowers, gamey meats, and pepper all emerge from the 2020 Syrah En Chamberlin Vineyard, a deeper, broader, medium to full-bodied Syrah with ripe, rounded tannins, a great mid-palate, and outstanding length. This meaty, gamey, complex, classic Cayuse Syrah is already approachable today but will benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and keep for 15+.
The 2020 Syrah en Chamberlin Vineyard opens to a broad, savory and open-knit expression, offering hints of baked earth and spicy notes with leather and sanguine aromas. Medium to full-bodied, the wine compresses on the palate, revealing a tight-gripping tannic edge that loses steam, delivering a clipped, tunnel-visioned expression that lingers with an astringent and bitter finish. I don't see this getting any better with additional time in the bottle, unfortunately...