If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you’d think this would be a no-brainer for me. I pump the tires of Washington wine so hard that you’d think I was born in Tacoma. (I wasn’t.) In particular, I love what Washington State does to my favourite red grape of all: Syrah. Add in a top notch critically-acclaimed producer and it’s a recipe for a killer review, right? At the end of the day, that’s definitely where it ended up, but it took a little while for it to get there.
Still just a baby, but clearly on the road to BIG things. Cellar if you can resist.
But let’s back up. This is another bottle from the wine lineup of Washington’s Gramercy Cellars brought into the province by Highlander Wine & Spirits, cousin to the Third Man GSM blend that I glowingly reviewed back in mid-December. In case you don’t feel like clicking on the link, here’s the Gramercy story in a nutshell: young NYC Master Sommelier phenom with high-powered resto-job leaves it all behind to pursue his passion and grow Syrah in Walla Walla. Gramercy makes other wines too (I still have a Cab and a Tempranillo downstairs waiting to be opened, and the Third Man is mainly Grenache), but Syrah is their heart and their focus. Did I mention that tonight’s bottle is a Syrah? And did I mention that Syrah’s my favourite?
