2006 Alban Vineyards Estate Syrah Seymour’s Edna Valley

The succession of prodigious Syrahs continues with the 2006 Syrah Seymour?s Vineyard (named after John Alban?s father). An infant in terms of development, it exhibits a smoky meatiness along with a forest floor character as well as its siblings? colossal level of concentration, enormous, multilayered texture, and skyscraper-like mouthfeel. Remarkably, there is no sense of heaviness. Another tour de force in Central Coast Syrah, it should drink well for 30-40 years. Review Date: August 2009

This wine exhibits a broad yet tightly reigned-in range of roasted herb, tobacco, mineral, graphite, pepper and road tar flavors. Full-blown, intense and chewy, with stewed plum and wild berry flavors supported by dense, extracted tannins. A baby. Best from 2012 through 2024. 350 cases made. Review Date: February 2011