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2017 The Hated Hunter Syrah | Ventura, California 750ml

...82.4% Syrah, 7.8% Petite Sirah, and the rest Mourvedre, Grenache, Viognier, and Petite Manseng, it will spend 23 months or so in 59% new French oak. My notes are sprinkled with a few expletives, but it does everything right, offering incredible purity of fruit, notes of white flowers, cured meats, spice box, and blackcurrants, full-bodied richness, and a seamless texture. It shows the pretty, perfumed, ripe style of the vintage yet is flawlessly balanced... | Jeb Dunnuck for jebdunnuck.com, 98-100 points