2023 Kobayashi Syrah, Washington, USA Birdhorse Properties

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THE FIRST EVER vintage to come to the U

this is a special Grillo from 0

along with Santa Barbara County Vineyard Manager Jim Stollberg and Winemaker Dieter Cronje

Aged in tank and part in 2000 Liter Rousseau foudre

2023 Kobayashi Syrah, Washington, USA Birdhorse Properties97% 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.