2020 Smith Vineyards Merlot-Syrah

Award winner at the Wine Align National Wine Awards. Great terroir is about aptitudes. These lakeshore vines, blessed with kindly climate, gravelly soils… and Rick Smith who grows and coaxes their mature Merlot and Syrah vines to yield great fruit. Generous plum, black cherry tannins from Merlot, with blackberry, white pepper, salinity and savoury smoke from Syrah.