Betz Family Winery La Cote Rousse Syrah 2017
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Category | Red Wine |
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Origin | United States, Washington, Red Mountain |
Brand | Betz Family Winery |
Alcohol/vol | 13.9% |
Wine Advocate
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The 2017 Syrah La Côte Rousse was made from co-fermenting Syrah with Viognoeir to help lift the nose and add to the structure of the wine. Medium to full-bodied, it boasts beautiful floral notes and a dusty finesse of Red Mountain with a powerful mineral-driven kick that lingers on the focused palate. The La Côte Rousse is finessed and delivers expressive, elegant tart blackberry fruit and soft oak spices, followed by a lingering finish with soft black pepper tones and a rustic, dusty earth essence. Only 450 cases were made.
Jeb Dunnuck
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Moving to the top Syrahs, the 2017 Syrah La Cote Rousse is always 100% Red Mountain fruit (92% from the Ciel du Cheval vineyard) and saw 30% stems and 13 months in French oak. Fabulous notes of bloody blueberries, lavender, dried herbs, and ground pepper as well as tons of minerality emerge from this full-bodied, concentrated, masculine Syrah. Compared to the La Serenne, this cuvée also shows a more savory, mineral, structured profile and benefits from short-term cellaring. It's going to keep for over a decade.
Wine Spectator
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Silky and elegantly complex, with expressive violet and black raspberry aromas that open to refined and polished black cherry, smoked pepper and licorice flavors, dancing toward fine-grained tannins. Drink now through 2027. 400 cases made.
Wine Enthusiast
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For the first time, this wine is blended with a touch of Viognier (3%). It was partially fermented in concrete, and the aromas are lifted with notes of huckleberry, raspberry, herb, orange peel, black pepper and abundant minerals. The blue-fruited palate is silky, soft and fresh, with a fine sense of acidity and tannin structure. It brings a lot of finesse as well. Best after 2024, with a long life after that.
Vinous
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Bright, dark ruby-red. Musky aromas of black raspberry, blueberry, licorice and wild herbs. Densely packed and fine-grained, conveying lovely inner-mouth violet lift to its cherry and dark berry flavors. Finishes tactile, firmly tannic and long. This juicy, seamless Syrah displays intriguing savory soil tones and a light touch but still needs a couple years to blossom in the bottle. (a blend of four clones; vinified with 30% whole clusters)