2014 Mossik Kahn Vineyard SyrahLovall Valley, Napa Valley

We have an old pomegranate tree at our house that produces the most incredible, deeply colored and vibrant fruit. Every fall as they ripen, it inspires me to make Persian pomegranate braised chicken. This is exactly the wine I want to drink with that. Syrah loves time in the bottle, and awesome dimensionality has unfolded in this one's near decade of development. Fruit is still pure and present, but now subdued a bit to let the savory, floral and herbaceous notes shine. Lighter and leaner than the 2015 ('14 was a pretty slow, steady and cool growing season), I love this wine with a little chill on it.

• Pomegranate, green olive, juniper berry, dry cedar and a waft of saffron floral earthiness
• 50% whole-cluster, open top fermentation. Élevage (14ish months) in very old, totally neutral burgundy barrels
• 12.6% ABV