Syrah. Not USA, Not Aussie, Not France.

WINE TALK
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Where?

I am planning a tasting around Syrahs that hail from anywhere but those three locales.
Thoughts? Notes? Insight? Direction?

Thanks!

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Switzerland.

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Cortona (Italy) - Il Bosco D’Allessandro.

Also Tuscany, Il Scrio. Isole e Olena has one from the Marche.

Greece. Geravassilou makes one. There is a really, really good from Avantis (Ayio Chronos), but suspect not available in US.

New Zealand.

A.

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South Africa comes to mind, so does Argentina.

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DeTrafford.

A.

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+1 on Argentina. You may want to track down some Northern Chile samples as well.

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Some interesting ones from Sicily as well

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I recently set up a tasting of various Syrahs from around the world. Look for Luca, while a big style, it offered a great syrah from Argentina. Another example would be Chile, Errazuriz makes a single vineyard around $15, I think. Theu also have a higher end syrah. The single vineyard is fine, but offered a lot of green notes. Italian syrah is great, but a bit harder to find as a solo. There are quite a few around Tuscany and possibly Sicily.

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Finca Sandoval from Spain
Portugal - my wife loves Portugese syrah. Very nice fine ground white pepper notes. I thought there was a nice one from Capcanes but it does not show up in CT so I am probably mistaken.
Israel - some interesting stuff. I had a nice Ella Valley Syrah. I think I got it from Posner.

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South Africa.

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Yup…the two I’ve tried have been amazingly good…very Rhonish in character. But lottsa luck finding
them in the USofA.
I’ve had some pretty amazing ones from NewZealand. And a couple from the AltoAdige in Italy.
Tom

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New Zealand:

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I think Finca Sandoval is now a GSM blend, but the old ones were mostly if not all Syrah IIRC.

Italy has a few worth trying. South Africa.

Switzerland is supposed ot have some good ones, but I could never find any.

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One that no one has suggested yet - Chile.

If you think not, try a bottle of the Montes ‘Folly’ some time!

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Great info here. The group might actually do some work other than the opening… puling out bottle… and closing of the Eurocave door…

Thanks!

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Graillot, the Rhone producer, makes a syrah from Morocco called “Syrocco.”

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A second on the Molly Folly from Chile. A fantastic wine.

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Oopsies. Sorry, Jorge, I skimmed that and missed the second part.

I am doing my annual terrine event at the end of the month and am thinking about matching two Syrahs with my mushroom rich terrine - maybe a Northern Rhone and now that we have been talking about it, perhaps a 2000 Montes Folly. It was pretty big and hearty when young but should have smoothed out some by now. If I match it with a mature Cornas, for example, things might work out well.

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I’d recommend Craggy Range Le Sol from New Zealand.