Desire Lines, Syrah Shake Ridge Ranch, 2018 SO 042525 from a rum old fashioned

from a rum old fashioned or a rum Manhattan to a darker

Ideal with roast chicken

and a little underbrushy edge

brassy minerality

Desire Lines, Syrah Shake Ridge Ranch, 2018 SO 042525 from a rum old fashionedShake Ridge Ranch is the Sierra Foothills' most coveted vineyard, farmed organically by the legendary Ann Kraemer, who tailors her work to each winemaker she supplies and Desire Lines' Cody Rasmussen (who cut his teeth alongside Morgan Twain Peterson at Bedrock) makes one of its finest Syrahs. The site sits in Amador County just uphill of the Melones Fault, in the heart of the old Mother Lode. This 2018 is deep and savory, full of blue fruit, wild