Snoqualmie's reserve Syrahs are very good efforts, but the real deals are the winery's Columbia Valley bottlings. This is pure Syrah, from the Wahluke Slope's Rosebud vineyard, and I would be hard-pressed to find a better Syrah at this price in the country. It's got genuine varietal character, whereas most cheap Syrah/Shiraz is just light red wine—could be Zinfandel, could be anything. Here there are zippy flavors of mixed berries, spicy black pepper and claret-like tannins. A beautiful sense of proportion and balance invigorates this wine; at less than 14 percent alcohol, it delivers more actual, nuanced flavor than many far more expensive, over-extracted versions. 25,000 cases produced.
Snoqualmie's reserve Syrahs are very good efforts, but the real deals are the winery's Columbia Valley bottlings. This is pure Syrah, from the Wahluke Slope's Rosebud vineyard, and I would be hard-pressed to find a better Syrah at this price in the country. It's got genuine varietal character, whereas most cheap Syrah/Shiraz is just light red wine—could be Zinfandel, could be anything. Here there are zippy flavors of mixed berries, spicy black pepper and claret-like tannins. A beautiful sense of proportion and balance invigorates this wine; at less than 14 percent alcohol, it delivers more actual, nuanced flavor than many far more expensive, over-extracted versions. 25,000 cases produced.
Snoqualmie's reserve Syrahs are very good efforts, but the real deals are the winery's Columbia Valley bottlings. This is pure Syrah, from the Wahluke Slope's Rosebud vineyard, and I would be hard-pressed to find a better Syrah at this price in the country. It's got genuine varietal character, whereas most cheap Syrah/Shiraz is just light red wine—could be Zinfandel, could be anything. Here there are zippy flavors of mixed berries, spicy black pepper and claret-like tannins. A beautiful sense of proportion and balance invigorates this wine; at less than 14 percent alcohol, it delivers more actual, nuanced flavor than many far more expensive, over-extracted versions. 25,000 cases produced.
Snoqualmie's reserve Syrahs are very good efforts, but the real deals are the winery's Columbia Valley bottlings. This is pure Syrah, from the Wahluke Slope's Rosebud vineyard, and I would be hard-pressed to find a better Syrah at this price in the country. It's got genuine varietal character, whereas most cheap Syrah/Shiraz is just light red wine—could be Zinfandel, could be anything. Here there are zippy flavors of mixed berries, spicy black pepper and claret-like tannins. A beautiful sense of proportion and balance invigorates this wine; at less than 14 percent alcohol, it delivers more actual, nuanced flavor than many far more expensive, over-extracted versions. 25,000 cases produced.