2023 Kobayashi Syrah, Washington, USA LC 2025 June where the grass is kept

where the grass is kept high

Pinot Noir and Aligote

Sourced from estate vineyards in the hillier soils on the eastern side of Lake Garda

this offers an infectious combination of complexity and directness

and polished tannins

2023 Kobayashi Syrah, Washington, USA LC 2025 June where the grass is kept97% Syrah, 3% Viognier from WeatherEye Vineyard, located at the top of Red Mountain in eastern Yakima Valley. The Rhone varieties Travis and Mario source from WeatherEye are ungrafted, single stake trained, and planted at high density on rocky, fractured basalt soils. The wine was whole cluster fermented with ambient yeasts, and matured for 22 months in French oak (25% new) before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.