title: Terre Rouge 2011 Ascent Syrah (Sierra Foothills)
description: Terre Rouge's annual best of the best barrels is luxurious in leather and smoky oak, grippy tobacco flirting through the midpalate through to the end. Concentrated in brambly black fruit and a core of gamy meat, it'll expand its world in due time, the layers of complexity like an Escher sketch, with no discernible end.
variety: Syrah
designation: Ascent