Wine Country: Argentina Wine Subregion: Mendoza Wine Varietal: Blend

 Man, these 2019 Rhone reds continue to really impress. This vintage seems to have produced a bevy of Grenache-based lovelies with not only nicely concentrated fruit without excessive alcohol (no mean feat these days) but also fresh, lifted...

Wine Country: FranceWine Subregion: Rhone ValleyWine Sub-subregion: Saint JosephWine Varietal: Syrah

PRIMA Notes:  One of the new outposts in the Torres empire is in Costers del Segre, a particularly remote part of Catalonia in the rain shadow of the Pyrenees.  This is an ancient growing region with sparse rainfall and dramatic diurnal shifts...

Winery Notes:  The 2020 is very similar to the 2019 – the fruit was ripe and absolutely stunning. The resultant wine shows lush black fruit, it is rounded and fleshy with a salinity that calls for a fine steak. This wine has a short vatting...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: PiemonteWine Sub-subregion: LangheWine Varietal: Nebbiolo

2019 Grand Veneur Cotes du Rhone 'Les Champauvins' 2022 was the year of the Cotes du Rhone at PRIMA!  It seems like everything we tried from either 2018 or 2019 was either delicious, well-priced or both!  It was really hard to pick a favorite...

PRIMA Notes: The 2015 Crozes-Hermitage featured here, Cuvée Ghany (named after their first-born son), is 100% Syrah, grown in the clay, limestone and rocky soils that are typical for this particular part of the appellation.  Fermented and...

2019 Torres Secret del Priorat, DOQ Priorat Secret del Priorat reveals the idiosyncrasies of each variety and each  parcel in a combination of our vineyards and those of small winegrowers,  located at different altitudes and sites across the...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: PiemonteWine Sub-subregion: LangheWine Varietal: Syrah

2020 Gaja Ca'Marcanda Promis 

Vinous:  95 Points Saturated red. Deep, concentrated aromas of kirsch, cola and blackcurrant, with mounting smokiness and Indian spice qualities. Livelier on the palate, offering sweet raspberry and cherry-cola flavors, velvety texture and a strong...

Wine Country: Italy Wine Subregion: Piemonte Wine Sub-subregion: Langhe Wine Varietal: Syrah

Winery Notes:  The vineyards are located at 130 meters up hill on a gently sloping south-east facing slope. The clay-limestone soil is composed of clay loam and fragments of limestone from the erosion of the slopes, alternating with marls and...

 The bluest of Chateauneuf du Pape bluebloods, the Vielles Vignes cuvee from Grand Veneur is, once again, the highest rated wine of a very, very fine vintage in the Southern Rhone. Established in the northern part of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, in...

Dark, fragrant and just lovely on the palate, the aromatics channel the Northern Rhone Valley while the palate is all California. So much going on in those deep, dark depths….. Made for a perfectly grilled steak!

61% Syrah, 38% Grenache, 1% Viognier Dry, hot eastern Washington State was, some thirty years ago, considered to be the next Promised Land (after the Napa Valley) for Cabernet Sauvignon and its brethren in America and, it’s true, the Columbia...

Gorgeous fresh savory flavors of bay leaf, menthol, cherry pit, bergamot, black pepper, and cinder just scream "Syrah"! Structurally, the wine has a pleasing weight from start to finish but is elevated by a steadily building brightness. Although this...

Wine Country: South AfricaWine Subregion: Western CapeWine Varietal: Syrah