Two Angels Petite Sirah 2005

The International Wine Review
"The 2005 Syrah is medium-purple in color and offers fresh plum and blueberry/blackberry on the nose. On the palate it is medium-weight with notes of strawberry, toasty oak and vanillin. The 2005 Petite Sirah is dark ruby in color with rich black berry fruit and coffee aromas with toast and spicy notes. On the palate it reveals lush fruit, notes of coffee and chocolate, light oak, elegant mouth feel, good balance, soft tannins, and a lovely finish."

"The grapes for Two Angels come from the renowned Shannon Ridge Vineyards, extremely volcanic, red pumice stone terroir. Hugging the mountain rims along the east edge of the High Valley AVA at close to 2,200 feet (the highest vineyards in California), the area is reminiscent of the Rhone Valley's Crozes-Hermitage vineyards. All the grapes for this wine came from a vineyard with a slope of 40 degrees. The fruit was all hand-picked and hand-sorted before cold soaking and a long, cool fermentation. The wine ages for ten months in a combination of 30-percent new French barrels and 70-percent 1-to-3 year old French and American oak." ~Winery Notes

"Peppery, with dark fruit flavors and a savory meatiness on a tightly tannic frame. Chewy and dense, with some spicy blackberry flavors that linger on the finish. Drink now through 2011. 3,580 cases made." ~Wine Spectator