With all the rave reviews for this wine, I’d been eagerly waiting to open it up for a couple of months.  We purchased it from Pete’s Wine Shop in Bellevue before Clara was born and had been holding onto it as one of the first bottles for Liz to really enjoy post pregnancy.

With Mark and Isabell in town for the weekend and flank steak coming off the grill and onto the table, it was time.

Gramercy clearly has the pedigree and story to create some world class wines.  Add-in Greg and Pam Harrington’s understanding of their customer base and you just get the feeling that they are going to do really well. Even the Wall Street Journal is on to them.

550 Cases produced with 97% Syrah and 3% Viognier

What we Thought: we enjoyed this wine and found it to be balanced, and didn’t have that overly spicy, overly alchoholy profile that you see in so many syrahs these days.  Not dark and brooding, but a little lighter in color, it was perfect with our steak and roasted vegetables.  With a little leftover, we tried this wine next to a Syrah from France on the second day and enjoyed pulling out the similarities and drastic differences in the two wines. 

According to Gramercy: This wine displays an amazingly floral nose with hints of orange rind. Flavors of liquid stone and gravel, with smoked meat and red and black fruits. This wine is all about balance with fantastic acidity and intense fruit and earth flavors.  This is a food wine, not for sipping on the porch! 

And finally, a great quote to close: "My goal is to make wines – the kind I like to drink – with lower alcohol, higher acid."  Greg Harrington.