Our Wines & Spirits

Antonio Galloni: The 2008 Syrah B-20 is a cool, inward wine gracedwith layers of beautifully delineated, chiseled fruit. This is adistinctly mineral, precise style relative to the more outgoing2009, but both are striking. Floral notes add lift as the finishturns explosive with a burst of dark fruit, tar, licorice andcrushed rocks. This is one of the more understated wines readersare likely to come across from Sine Qua Non. It is gorgeous whengiven the time to open up. The B-20 is predominantly Syrah, with 6%Grenache and 2% Viognier. About half of the Grenache was fermentedwith whole clusters and the wine was aged in French oak (60% new)for 26 months. The vineyard sources are 52% Eleven Confessions, 18%Cumulus, 18% Bien Nacido and 12% White Hawk.