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Vasanti Estate Winery Syrah 2021

Vasanti Estate Winery Syrah 2021
Vasanti Estate Winery Syrah 2021

Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, BC V.Q.A., Canada



Community Score: 4.6/5
Community Reviews: 1
 
Price: $40.00
Sweetness: Dry
Alcohol: 15.5%
 

Drink: 2025-2027

Bottle size: 750 ml
Winery: Vasanti Estate Winery

Deborah Podurgiel WSET IV Candidate rated this wine as 92/100 with the following review:

Wow! Vasanti Estate Winery Syrah 2021 is an amazingly rich, full-bodied and spicy Syrah from a hot vintage (from British Columbia's 'heat dome' year). Fragrant with blue florals, dark cherry, and sweet dried tobacco leaf, the wine is dry, sensuously smooth and silky on the palate, despite its 15.5% abv. with ripe blackberry, sweet dried tobacco leaf, cassis, dark cherry, raspberry leather, anise and pepper spice flavours that linger and finish on a dark berry and sweet spice note. Tannins are structured, rich and smooth. Very nicely crafted! To enjoy it now, decant the wine for one hour prior to pouring it with a sirloin steak from the grill or cellar it to 2030.

Produced from Syrah grapes sourced from the South Okanagan, British Columbia, the wine was aged for 30-plus months in new American oak barrels. Tasted April 2025.
 

  


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