INSIDER DEAL! XX% OFF Brick Barn Santa Ynez Valley Syrah

Award-winning single vineyard Syrah from a fabulous spot for this Rhone varietal, the Santa Ynez Valley. Don’t miss our incredible SAVINGS OF $XX A BOTTLE on the 91-93 point Brick Barn Estate Santa Ynez Valley Syrah.

As I’m sure you all know by know, we love Syrah and today we have an excellent cool-climate example from Brick Barn Wine Estate.

Harmonious, layered and balanced, this wine won Best in Class at the 2024 SF Chronicle Wine Competition and Best Syrah at the 2024 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition.

Made with 10% whole cluster Viognier and aged 20 months in mostly (90%) French oak barrels with 40% new, no expense was spared here. Just 952 cases were produced.

As such, this wine normally retails for $50 a bottle, but through today’s Insider Deal you’ll only pay a fraction of that price…

For the next day you can get 3 bottles of the 2021 Brick Barn Santa Ynez Valley Syrah for just $XX.95 ($XX.XX/bottle). That’s a discount of XX% saving you $XX a bottle!

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Read on for our full review.

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From the winery:

Tasting Notes: The Syrah presents warm aromas of red cherry, plum, and spice with accents of dried herbs. A jammy, sumptuous texture offers rounded flavors of cherry, blueberry, cinnamon, and toasted oak with trailing notes of white pepper and mocha. Juicy acidity and plump tannins converge on a smooth, structured finish.

Vineyard Notes: The 35-acre Brick Barn estate vineyard lies just north of the Santa Ynez River in a largely unexplored wine-growing corridor near the city of Buellton in the western Santa Ynez Valley. The Syrah finds harmony and complexity as a blend of two estate blocks—Block 8 (Clone 1), which produces dark fruit with robust tannins; and Block 14 (Clone 470) which yields a lighter character and red fruit tones. These blocks are planted along an upper highland at an elevation of 550 feet. Here, rocky loam and limestone soils provide ideal conditions for classic Rhône varieties. Persistent sun exposure ensures ripe flavors, while the Pacific Ocean—just 10 miles away—delivers daily cooling that maintains fruit acidity and structure.

Winemaker Notes: After night harvesting, the fruit was destemmed and cold soaked for five days to initiate a gentle extraction of color and flavor. The wine was then fermented in a mix of small open-top bins and tanks, with two punch-downs and one pump overperformed daily for balanced extraction and aeration. In the classic Côte-Rôtie style, a small lot of whole-cluster Viognier (10%) was incorporated into the fermentation to intensify the color and lift to the aroma profile. After gentle pressing, the lots were settled and racked to French (90%) and American (10%) oak barrels, where they aged for 20 months. Forty percent of the barrels featured new oak to accentuate the wine with hints of sweet spice and toasted oak. The French oak imparted a subtle toasted oak structure, while the complement of American oak layered in sweeter notes of vanilla and baking spice.

Food Pairing Notes: The Syrah makes an excellent match for winter beef stews, rosemary pork chops, mushroom casserole, and grilled lamb with herbes de Provençe.

Vintage: 2021
Varietal: Syrah
Appellation: Santa Ynez Valley
Vineyard: Brick Barn Estate Vineyard, Blocks 8 & 14
Clones: 1 & 470
Aging: 20 months in French & American oak barrels (40% new oak)
pH: 3.82
Total Acidity: .52
Production: 952 cases

Produced and Bottled by Brick Barn Wine Estate
14.6% Alcohol
Cork

And now on to our review:

The 2021 Brick Barn Santa Ynez Valley Syrah opens with a pleasing and harmonious aroma of black cherry and plum plus a little peppery spice and touches of cinnamon, vanilla, and dried herbs. There is a lot going on here so it takes some swirling and sniffing to get to all of the layers. It’s a great start!

Tasting reveals an excellent, medium-bodied example of cool climate Syrah. It features similar flavors to the nose and is quite distinctly Syrah in the mouth. It also has great balance and a nice sense of elegance to it.

It ends dry and very long and was similar on day 2. Excellent!

Cheers,
Jon

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