Reynvaan Syrah

Opened my second bottle of the Reynvaan 2018 Foothills Res. and found it much more appealing than the first. It had wonderful but mild barnyard complexity and lots of semi-intense red fruit. Maybe I'm in a better mood today or bottle variation. In any event I'm out of beer so opening wine for lunch and to drink with a movie this PM (Yellowstone...I love this series). We are basically snowed in but have lots of food/firewood/wine. This weather event (s) will one day be gone but at least now we have power, the internet and a
winning Buckeye team. Go Bucks in Atlanta !

[Jenise]

Jim, I'm a big Reynvaan fan. I didn't buy the 2018s but about six months ago a friend served a different one than the Foothills Reserve which should be on a similar path, so I have a sense of what you tasted. The barnyard you refer to is what we call Rocks Funk. Rocks is it's own AVA; that funk is in the soils and it comes thru in the wines. Very much a love-it or hate-it kind of thing. Glad you love it and had a good bottle.