Cabot, Kimberly’s Vineyard Syrah, 2016 nrhonecount091724 it offers depth and maturity

it offers depth and maturity balanced by tension and freshness

4 ha south-facing site planted in the early 1980s on stony clay-limestone soils below Premier Cru slopes

floral complexity that defines great traditional Barolo

The clay soils here create wines of depth and structure rarely seen in the Loire

Fermented with partial whole clusters and aged in older barrels

Cabot, Kimberly’s Vineyard Syrah, 2016 nrhonecount091724 it offers depth and maturitySyrah grown at the literal northern edge of California wine country, in the mountains of Humboldt County far above where anyone sensible plants vines. John and Kimberly Cabot farm organically up here, and Kimberly's is their home estate cuvee, made only in vintages that earn it. The trick that makes it sing is a co fermentation with a small dose of Viognier (5 to 10 percent), an old Northern Rhone move that lifts the aromatics and adds a floral top