Knowing this wine well

high-toned and wonderfully lacy nose of dark cherry

shedding any monolithic tones you might expect of a wine of this depth and persistence

all wrapped in a relatively powerful

a combination of orange peel

Cayuse, Cerise Syrah Vintage:2018 Knowing this wine wellHealthy dark red. Musky, Old World scents of bloody steak, minerals, olive tapenade, wild herbs and soy sauce. Densely packed and sweeter in the early going than the En Chambertin, with notes of spices and peat moss that reminded me of a Cte de Nuits wine. Pliant in texture but still quite reserved and not at all a sweet style. The tannins are a bit youthfully tough and a bit less noble than those of the 2012 version, but this distinctly savory wine