Pax Sonoma-Hillsides Syrah 2024
Pax Sonoma-Hillsides Syrah 2024
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Drinking window: 2027 - 2039
The 2024 Syrah Sonoma Hillsides is the most potent vintage for this wine yet. Dark-toned fruit, lavender, licorice and mocha literally stain the palate. Inky and explosive, with tremendous depth, the 2024 is a very young wine. It needs time to shed some of its considerable baby fat, which should also allow the aromatics to open more fully. Once that happens, watch out. The 2024 is shaping up to be another exceptional edition of Sonoma Hillsides, consistently one of the most exciting Syrahs in the United States. The 2024 was vinified in cement with 100% whole clusters, where it spent about ten months prior to bottling.
Pax Mahle presented a stellar set of new and future releases. I was quite simply blown away by what I tasted. The full lineup of 2023 Syrahs is just magnificent. In addition to current wines, Mahle also poured a few older Syrahs from his Wind Gap days, including wines from the period when he favored much heavier extraction and a stronger oak imprint. Even though those wines are miles apart from Mahle's stylistic preferences today, they have aged exceptionally well. There is no stronger endorsement for the quality of Sonoma's top sites than that. Mahle picks early for freshness. Wines are done in a minimalist style that includes a good bit of stem inclusion for the reds and aging in neutral oak and/or cement. These wines remain benchmarks for excellence in Sonoma. - Galloni January 2026This is a blend of Pax sites, the best barrels of each vintage that harmoniously make his most sought-after wine each vintage! It is neither too big nor is it light. Packed with fruit, spice, and lift, it is never sweet or overbearing. While this blend is at the mercy of the variations of the vintage, it is easy to see the resemblance of the previous vintages.
"When all the pieces of the puzzle fit seamlessly together, the result is greater than the sum of its parts. This is what we strive for with the Sonoma Hillsides Syrah, a harmony in integration that transcends the limits of the individual." - Pax
- 100% Syrah
- 100% Whole-Cluster
- Fermented entirely in concrete tanks
- Aged for 10 months in neutral 500L French Oak Puncheons
- 12.5% Alc by Vol
Winery: Inspired by the Syrah based wines chiseled from the slopes of St Joseph, this 100% Syrah is becoming a reference point of its own for Syrah in the new world. Just like in St Joseph, we pulled this blend together from multiple sites and utilized the most interesting expositions of these meticulously cared for vineyards. Hillsides that show the freshness and vibrancy that Syrah can only achieve on cool-climate slopes. Blended together in cubic concrete vats, this wine is the epitome of density, finesse, style and deliciousness. This wine eschews the standard run-of-the-mill Syrah tropes, shapeless with blubber, oak and extraction that many people wrongly confuse with quality. This is pure Syrah at its finest.
