Stats
- Grapes: 100% Syrah
- Vineyard: Denton Vineyard
- Vine Age: 20-years-old
- Soil Type: Granitic sand over granite rock
- Viticulture: Practicing organic
- Fermentation: Native — stainless-steel (80% whole-cluster and 20% destemmed & crushed)
- Skin Contact: 2-3 weeks
- Aging: 8 months in 5000L old French oak foudre
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- pH: 3.6
- Total Acidity: 5.9 g/L
- Total SO2: 43 ppm
- Total Production: 583 cases
Tasting Note
The Lambert Syrah shows layered perfume of black raspberry, violets, and aniseed. It opens slowly to reveal intense red berry flavors and orange rind, with earthy tones of graphite and smoke. Superb length on the finish.
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
95
"An unirrigated patch of vines, still establishing themselves. A medium-bodied wine of ethereal scents and a savory structural latticework that brings the drinker back to chew on the tannins. Great tannins, here. Violets, blueberries, iodine, tapenade and saucisson, with a hint of dill, clove and something loamy and ferrous to the mouthfeel, imparting warmth and a strong sense of place. There is something evocative about this, even if new to the style. It all feels intuitive. It all feels right. Drink or hold."
Vinous
93
"The stunning 2022 Syrah is super-stylish, with a modern, fresh edge. It delivers up a powerful yet refined core of mulberry and blackberry, with toasted spices and stalky dried herbs well matched to a backbone of fine French oak. Fantastic energy follows, the whole-bunchy herbs provide a youthful, compact shape to meaty, spicy, and violet flavors, all supported by sturdy tannins. There is a confidence here that will serve the wine well for at least a decade.”