A Sonoma Syrah Sum Greater Than Its Parts
The 2009 Carlisle Sonoma County is a classic-rated county wine blending grapes from some of Sonoma's top Syrah vineyards
Posted: May 23, 2011 10:41am ET
What happens when you put together a handful of California's best Syrah vineyards with a crack winemaking team?
How about the 2009 Carlisle Sonoma County Syrah, featured in the May 18 Wine Spectator Insider. It's a good story and then some.
For one, it earned a 97-point rating and it is an amazingly complex, deep and layered wine that drank well for three days after it was opened and tasted in one of my blind tastings. For another, it sells (or sold) for $25. Those kinds of numbers—rating and price—don't usually go hand in hand. But it's nice when they do because it proves it can be done.
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