Lillian White Hawk Vineyard Syrah 2008 (750ML)

94 WA

Lillian Winery is located in Dundee, Oregon but the fruit for this Single Vineyard Syrah is from White Hawk Vineyard, a 60-acre vineyard just outside of Los Alamos, CA. Our block at the top of the vineyard is a sand dune; literally pure sand. The site is warmer than Bien Nacido but because of its soils, retains precision and finesse. This is the darkest and most deeply fruited of the three sites. Complexity comes as floral and oceanic related perfumes rather than a more typical bacon fat, and pepper oriented profile. -Winery

Glass-staining purple. Deeply pitched aromas of black and blue fruits, incense, olive tapenade and fruitcake, with smoke and violet notes gaining power with air. Rich and broad but almost shockingly energetic, offering sweet, liqueur-like blackberry and boysenberry flavors and exotic spice and floral pastille qualities. Intense and focused on the extremely long finish, which strongly repeats the floral and spice notes. -The Wine Advocate