2017 Pax Syrah Sonoma Hillsides - offer is live

WINE TALK
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[swearing.gif] Mine are shipping out today, which means sitting around all weekend. Forecast looks fine, just wish all wineries would start holding until Mondays /Tuesdays

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If the box gets on a truck/train/whatever for a long trip it keeps moving over the weekend.

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I tasted a distributor sample of this last month, and it’s at least as good as the previous vintage.

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I got a chance to taste from two bottles of this last night and I took away two things from it:

  1. the wine is really good. especially with some food at this point.
  2. its gonna be a lot better with a couple years in the bottle.

I’m an acid freak and this is a lean mean machine of a syrah which is great. very northern rhone but cranked up on the raspberry and tuned down a little on the savory notes with a big hit of minerality right now. once some of those really start to develop I’m gonna be glad to have more of it around.

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Anyone know what type of cork is used? 100% natural?

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Diam (or at least that is what I recall about the 2016, haven’t received my 2017 yet).

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the two i’ve got sitting right beside me aren’t branded at all. they actually have no marking whatsoever on them: no cork producer, no Pax, no vintage. although it looks like composite printed on the outside to look like natural cork?

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So coravin use would not be recommend. Cool thanks for the heads up guys.

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Looking at my Magnum :slight_smile:. Just arrived.