Gold Medal & 92 Points awarded to our 2017 Syrah Les Amours

We are pleased to announce that our VIE 2017 Syrah Les Amours received a Gold Medal & 92 Points from American Fine Wine Competition!

VIE is all about “enjoying life”, Les Amours is all about the “loves” in life. The 2017 Les Amours embraces this philosophy by blending Syrah from the White Hawk vineyards with a little Mourvèdre for structure. The nose, like the color, is dark with muted dark red and black fruit. Hints of white pepper spice and dark fruit carry from the nose into the palate which enters with concentrated, focused black cherry and blackberry fruit well integrated with firm, gripping tannins. The tannins provide a long, elegant finish rich with dark blackberry and dark plum fruit with hints of burnt bacon grease, pepper and toasted oak that linger in a long 45+ second finish. This wine is big with great structure and good acidity similar to that the great wines from the Côte-Rôtie region and definitely needs age. This wine needs to cellar for 3-4 years and can be enjoyed for 15 or more years.