2015 | Horsepower | Syrah The Tribe

Description

Red Wine: 2015 | Horsepower | Syrah The Tribe

Charcuterie, graphite, abundant spice and a dusting of pepper, bright berry fruits and an enchanting floral edge.

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Producer: Horsepower

Ratings: WA | 98JS | 98

Vintage: 2015

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.6%

Varietal: Syrah/Shiraz

Country/Region: United States, Washington

Beautifully executed freshness and complexity with charcuterie, graphite, abundant spice and a dusting of pepper, bright berry fruits and an enchanting floral edge.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Of these three offerings from Horsepower, the 2015 Syrah The Tribe Vineyard will require the most time, as it’s the most tight-knit at this early stage, slowly unwinding in the glass with savory aromas of raw cocoa, tapenade, nori and ripe blackberries. On the palate, it’s full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a rich chassis of satiny structuring tannins and a layered, umami-laden core of fruit. At 13.6% alcohol, it’s also beautifully balanced.

• James Suckling: This shows beautifully executed freshness and complexity with charcuterie, graphite, abundant spice and a dusting of pepper, bright berry fruits and an enchanting floral edge. The palate has light, playful tannins and is wildly charming and lacy; it offers blackberries and spiced red cherries wrapped neatly. Syrah at its ethereal best.

Producer Information

Horsepower Vineyards is about tradition and history—and making history. It’s a connection between a vigneron and his roots. An homage to craft and family. An embrace of the earth that seems at once old-fashioned and new. And at its simplest, it’s a man slowly working the vineyard with his horse, just like generations before him. Tradition isn’t an abstract concept to Christophe Baron, founder of both Cayuse Vineyards and Horsepower Vineyards—he was born into it. The oldest son of the centuries-old Champagne house, Baron Albert, his family has worked their land in the Marne Valley of France since 1677. As recently as 1957 horses still did all of the vineyard cultivation. Horsepower represents a return to that time, to a simplicity of craftsmanship and purpose that has been largely lost in the modern translation. It’s a window to the Old World —right here in the new