Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
15.8 % Alcohol
Tasted 2014-07-31
We visited the tasting room of Thumbprint Cellars in Healdsburg last in October 2012. Doing wine tastings at Healdsburg Plaza is quite a challenging thing. You visit a tasting room and get immediately a recommendation for the next one. And so on and so on... If you start early in the morning you have to be careful with the amount of wine you taste. Especially because you can walk from one tasting room to the next one without using a car. And even more because the people in the tasting rooms are extremely cordial. A place like paradise for wine friends.
Thumbprint Cellars was a recommendation of the people from La Crema nearby. All wines were very good, but we loved most the Syrahs and bought two bottles. One we emptied the same evening in the wonderful Dry Creek Kitchen restaurant on the other side of the street. The other one waited for nearly two years in our cellar...
The Syrah from the Ramazzotti Vineyard offered a medium cherry red colour with some light rims. This Syrah is more a fruity one. Aromas of cherries, blackberries and some blueberries are clearly dominating. In the mouth the high alcohol is present but very well integrated. It reminds a little bit of liqueur. A rich wine which needs a strong partner. We opened it for a wonderful beef fillet and it was a very good combination. The wine didn't try to outplay the fillet, but enriched the flavours of the beef by a fruity note. Excellent.
This vegan wine is on the top and will hold its quality for another two years. Only 225 cases were produced from this nice Syrah. If you have a chance to buy it, don't wait.