Twisted Oak Calaveras County Tanner Vineyard Syrah 2004
Region: Calaveras County, California
Winery: Twisted Oak Winery
Variety: Syrah

At Twisted Oak, we are comfortable enough with our own Metrosexuality to not miss the chance to jump onto the latest trend. In this case, that Splendiferous display of Freeativity known as "making up new words." It is no longer sufficient to say, for example, something is "stupid". Instead, now we must say that it "displays excessive Bozosity." We could probably think of a Gazillion existing words to describe this Ginormously Rediculicious wine, but anyone could do that. No, in our own Twisted way, we now dub this wine "Tannerific". We think your Edumacated eye will agree. And while you are enjoying it, why not Noun a few Verbs and Verb a few Nouns? We dare you!
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Tasting Notes

The 2004 Tanner has the classic heavy mettle of Calaveras Syrah that Led to us Going to California and making wine here. Heady aromas of raspberries, pepper, and leather are sure to leave you Dazed and Confused. We also expect you will have a Whole Lotta Love for the big strawberry, vanilla and rhubarb flavors. Chewy tannins Bring It On Home for a nice finish. We know we could Ramble On about this Heartbreaker of a wine, but we don’t want to end up swinging from the Gallows Pole... (OK, sure, we wanted to work in Stairway to Heaven - but it got Trampled Under Foot.)

Production Notes
The 2004 Tanner has the classic heavy mettle of Calaveras Syrah that Led to us Going to California and making wine here. Heady aromas of raspberries, pepper, and leather are sure to leave you Dazed and Confused. We also expect you will have a Whole Lotta Love for the big strawberry, vanilla and rhubarb flavors. Chewy tannins Bring It On Home for a nice finish. We know we could Ramble On about this Heartbreaker of a wine, but we don’t want to end up swinging from the Gallows Pole... (OK, sure, we wanted to work in Stairway to Heaven - but it got Trampled Under Foot.)

In 2004 we had a late heat spell that kicked the vines into ripeness just before the weather changed up and sent some rains down. Upon reaching the winery, the fruit was fermented with approximately 80% of the berries crushed and 20% destemmed and left as “whole-berries”, giving that juice more fruit character. After primary fermentation, the wine was pressed and racked to barrels where we induced the secondary, or malolactic, fermentation to soften the mouthfeel. The wine spent 20 months in new French, American and Hungarian oak before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Posted by thewinery on January 27th, 2008 at 3:24pm | report comment

Twisted Oak Calaveras County Tanner Vineyard Syrah 2004
Region: Calaveras County, California
Winery: Twisted Oak Winery
Variety: Syrah

Color: Deep purple

Nose: A lot of vanilla, some garden herbs, then some rich but dusty blueberry with with some red fruit hinting underneath. Ends with some white pepper.

Palate: Full and chewy, with vanilla and oak in the fore, then that blueberry starts rising to the surface in the front and the meaty mid-palate. Finishes with more oak and some red fruit that comes out in the long finish.

Posted by drxeno on October 11th, 2008 at 1:11pm | report comment