The 2007 Syrah Ampelos Vineyard offers abundant amounts of black fruits intermixed with notions of roasted herbs, bouquet garni, and charcoal. Also ripe and full-bodied, but not as complex as the Verna’s, it is a backward, tannic effort that will benefit from 1-2 years of cellaring, and will keep for a decade.
Samsara (the Sanskrit word for “eternal life”) is a project of Chad and Mary Melville, members of the well-known Melville family.
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