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Domaine Gonon

Porter Creek

Timbervine Ranch Syrah 2010

Jordan Mackay
9.3

This was a fantastic Syrah. The nose is all green olives and BlackBerry and violets. The wine is fairly light bodied for a fully ripe Syrah, and it fronts fruit over pepper. But in a lovely way; there's no mistaking that this is Syrah. Still, it's lightness and relative lack of midpalate density makes me wish it was just a tiny bit cheaper. Runs probably close to 40 retail. Comparable to Gonon Iles Feray. — 13 years ago

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Sybaritewino C.Lawrence

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helped make that wine. do remember that '10 was especially cool. Also, TVR vineyard is at altitude and on Russian River proper. BTW-we met in 2011, Bangkok.
Jordan Mackay

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Has it already been 2 years? Time passes so fast. Very cool that you worked there. The wine turned out great.
Sybaritewino C.Lawrence

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It has & it does. Thanx for the PN book! Will pass along info on TVR Syrah to Alex. Back in Japan now. Follow to see what wines I taste here. Cheers.