Cabot, Kimberly’s Vineyard Syrah, 2016 nrhonecount091724 Tessa Laroche makes this crystalline

Tessa Laroche makes this crystalline

specializing in high-altitude old-vine Garnacha

and nearly impossible to find

was officially extinct in 1970

Cabot, Kimberly’s Vineyard Syrah, 2016 nrhonecount091724 Tessa Laroche makes this crystallineSyrah grown at the literal northern edge of California wine country, in the mountains of Humboldt County far above where anyone sensible plants vines. John and Kimberly Cabot farm organically up here, and Kimberly's is their home estate cuvee, made only in vintages that earn it. The trick that makes it sing is a co fermentation with a small dose of Viognier (5 to 10 percent), an old Northern Rhone move that lifts the aromatics and adds a floral top