[ryvl video_url=”https://vimeo.com/229257045″ auto_play=”yes”][/ryvl]This is the first vintage of Obsidian Vineyard Syrah under our new ownership and management of the vineyard as our estate property, and it is a showstopper of a wine. With increased focus on the highest-quality vineyard practices, the wine is showing even more exciting qualities than ever before: the hedonism of the 2013 vintage with the refinement of the 2014 vintage.

The overarching theme of 2015 was low fruit-set, bringing yields down across most of our vineyards. At Obsidian, where yields are already low, they were especially low – roughly one ton per acre. This translated into a very intensely flavored and concentrated Obsidian Syrah, with its trademark notes of chocolate ganache, black currants, fig, and graphite and an expansive mouthfeel.