Syrah

Master sommelier Ian Cauble makes his selections for the finest wines from around the world…

Just over 200 cases of Gramercy Cellars 2013 Syrah John Lewis Walla Walla Valley are produced annually…

The Guímaro vineyard in Galicia is one of the oldest in Spain and was once cultivated by the Romans…

For generations, Domaine Jean-Louis Chave has focused on Syrah, planted in France’s Northern Rhône Valley…

French dark wine from Cahors and the Fable Mountain 2011 Syrah from South Africa make up May 2015’s wines of choice…

Our minds are trained from an early age to discover unity in the universe’s infinite multiplicity, and this tendency persists even in the small cosmos of wine, whose inhabitants seem preoccupied with the process of separation. Vintners divide regions into appellations, vineyards into blocks and micro crus, but their ultimate goal is to assemble the […]

Tucked among the hills of Santa Barbara County’s Santa Ynez Valley is a 600-acre laboratory where fascinating oenological experiments are carried out by Matt Dees. An alumnus of the University of Vermont and a veteran of the very different growing conditions of New Zealand and Napa Valley, Dees now presides over the complex winemaking at […]

Master sommelier Greg Harrington is among those pioneering members of his profession who, in the past decade, have transitioned from buying and pouring fine wine to making it themselves. The wine director for the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group and, later, beverage director for a national restaurant and hotel group, Harrington developed a taste for […]

A decade and a half ago, Santa Barbara County’s wine industry went through a period of adjustment, as many vintners who had attempted to replicate Napa Valley’s success with Bordeaux-style wines discovered that the climate did not cooperate. Grad­ually, producers turned their attention to the heartier Rhône varietals, which—along with Chardonnay and pockets of Pinot […]