I enjoyed this wine again this past week, and then found it for $20 on Wine Bid this weekend. I feel like I just committed grand theft. How this wine can be floating around for that price with this kind of quality and bottle age is pretty puzzling. But hell, I won’t piss about it. Terrific wine that continue to get better, even change in the glass but ultimately it’s getting closer to being ready and a delicious example of Copain syrah. I dropped in my Oct 2008 TN for context, as well.
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2004 Copain Syrah Madder Lake - USA, California, North Coast, Lake County (10/27/2009)
Very interesting bottle. Opened and poured. Of course, starts out with a tight finish, grapey fruit. Within an hour, over dinner of turkey tacos and black beans, the wine is just humming–beautiful aromatics of white and purple flowers, bacon fat and a grapey but fairly plush palate of dark fruit. Then, within 30 minutes, the wine changes again, the flower aromatic recedes, the whole cluster type of signature returns, with the tight finish. Totally bizarre but the way wine transforms itself is something of a blessing, a miracle to enjoy and experience. In the end, with about a 2 hour decant, I will go with my October 2008 TN and say, let this wine rest or decant it well. Olive, dark berry, some menthol, campfire note, and a grapey and expressive palate. I say late 2010 for peak and this wine, at this price, becomes a fine representation for the 2004 vintage and for Wells. -
2004 Copain Syrah Madder Lake - USA, California, North Coast, Lake County (10/12/2008)
Paired with a course of ahi done with a mixture of olive, garlic and eggplant. Having tasted this wine about a month ago, I was surprised then about how youthful it still tasted but then again last night, convinced now that this wine is still a couple years ahead of prime drinking. Showed some olive, dark fruit and color, but remains with a core of herbal whole cluster that infuses the palate. Paired well with the course above but let your bottles rest another 1-2 years or decant, as it’s heading for a real nice drinking window.
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