Revealing a deep ruby/purple color as well as notes of graphite, coffee, crushed rocks, blackberries, and cassis, the 2004 Syrah White Hawk Vineyard is a dense, firmly structured effort with high tannin, superb concentration, and loads of power as well as richness. Enjoy it now and over the next 10-12 years. Tasting through three vintages of Adam Tolmach’s Syrahs is an education in how different these three years were in Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara County. 2004 was a warm year, 2005 was a cool year with high yields and good acids, and 2006 was a challenging vintage that required substantial work in the vineyards as well as tremendous patience at the end when it appeared a freakish hot spell might ripen everything at once. 2005 is a very strong vintage at Ojai, and all of the single vineyard offerings were deeper and richer than their 2006 counterparts.Tel. (805) 649-1674

Revealing a deep ruby/purple color as well as notes of graphite, coffee, crushed rocks, blackberries, and cassis, the 2004 Syrah White Hawk Vineyard is a dense, firmly structured effort with high tannin, superb concentration, and loads of power as well as richness. Enjoy it now and over the next 10-12 years. Tasting through three vintages of Adam Tolmach’s Syrahs is an education in how different these three years were in Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara County. 2004 was a warm year, 2005 was a cool year with high yields and good acids, and 2006 was a challenging vintage that required substantial work in the vineyards as well as tremendous patience at the end when it appeared a freakish hot spell might ripen everything at once. 2005 is a very strong vintage at Ojai, and all of the single vineyard offerings were deeper and richer than their 2006 counterparts. Tel. (805) 649-1674

The vineyard has been source to wines from different wineries, with decidedly mixed results. In Ojai’s competent hands, it has produced a fine Syrah very much in the Northern Rhone style. Dry and tannic, the wine shows blackberry, currant, cola, smoky vanilla oak and peppery spice flavors. Elegant and upscale now, it should age well for several years.——S.H.(5/1/2008)—— 93