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2018 Hartford Court Outer Limits Syrah

2018 Hartford Court Outer Limits Syrah

95 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown
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Black and blue fruits drive the aroma initially in this Sonoma Coast Syrah, with slight gamy characters, garrigue, blond tobacco and lilac aromas.  Tasting the wine one finds ripe blueberry and black currant flavors, and tannins that express the wine's mountaintop sourcing.  This dense and spicy Syrah was crafted in a style reminiscent of the great wines of the Northern Rhone Valley
95 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown
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Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2018 Outer Limits Vineyard Syrah prances out with pretty notes of crushed black cherries, fresh blackberries, and black raspberries leading to hints of cracked black pepper, tar, violets, and garrigue. The medium to full-bodied palate is beautifully fragrant, with a firm frame of rounded tannins and bags of freshness, finishing long and peppery. This is sourced from a south-west facing block located on a mountain ridge north of Fort Ross on the Sonoma Coast."
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent, 4/2024

Historical Acclaim

  • V. 2018: 95 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent, April 2024
  • V. 2021: 95 points, Billy Norris, Vinous, January 2026
  • V. 2019: 94 points, Tom Capo, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, December 2025
  • V. 2019: 92 points, Erin Brooks, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, October 2025
  • V. 2019: 90 points, Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com, June 2024
  • V. 2018: 96 points, Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com, July 2023
  • V. 2018: 93 points, Erin Brooks, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, October 2024
  • V. 2018: 92 points, Tim Fish, Wine Spectator, October 2023
  • V. 2018: 91 points, Jim Gordon, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, January 2024
  • V. 2017: 94 points, Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com, July 2023
  • V. 2017: 92 points, Tim Fish, Wine Spectator, October 2023
  • V. 2017: 91 points, Erin Brooks, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, October 2024
  • V. 2016: 95 points, Virginie Boone, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, September 2022

Vineyard & Vintage Character

Our Outer Limits Vineyard Syrah comes from an estate vineyard site, located on a windswept ridge area near Annapolis.  The vineyard, which also is the source of our Far Coast Chardonnay and Pinot Noir bottlings, is a very cool site surrounded by redwood forests, over an hour north of the Russian River. This Sonoma Coast mountain ridge is four miles from the Pacific Ocian at 900 feet elevation.  The soils are the Goldridge series on top of older volcanic bedrock, which drives a balance between fruit, complexity, and structure.
Hand harvested at night. Clusters and individual berries are hand sorted before fermentation in small open top fermentors. Native primary and ML. 14-21 day fermentation with daily punchdowns. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Outer Limits Syrah
Wine Details
TA
5.6g/L
TIME IN OAK
20 months
ALCOHOL
14.9%
PH
3.66
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