2004 Ojai Syrah Bien Nacido Vineyard

The 2004 Syrah Bien Nacido Vineyard exhibits a black purple color, and a deep, concentrated nose of tapenade, blackberry, graphite, and earth. Full-bodied, dense, and chewy, it will benefit from 1-2 more years of bottle age, and should last for 15+. Tasting through three vintages of Adam Tolmach’s Syrahs is an education in how different these three years were in Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara County. 2004 was a warm year, 2005 was a cool year with high yields and good acids, and 2006 was a challenging vintage that required substantial work in the vineyards as well as tremendous patience at the end when it appeared a freakish hot spell might ripen everything at once. 2005 is a very strong vintage at Ojai, and all of the single vineyard offerings were deeper and richer than their 2006 counterparts. Tel. (805) 649-1674