2012 Exposition 3 Proprietary Red
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The 2012 Syrah Weill a Way Vineyard Exposition 3 is the darkest, most brooding and least expressive of the three Syrahs Exposition series. Dark cherry, leather, game, smoke and tobacco add nuance, but the wine never seems to fully come together. The Exposition 3 is 84% Syrah and 16% Viognier, done with 10% whole clusters.
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The “2012 Proprietary Red Weill Vineyard Exposition Project Trio” is three incredible wines from Sonoma County. This is Twain-Peterson’s take on the three LaLa wines from the Guigal family in Côte-Rôtie. He is emphasizing distinct clonal terroir and exposition differences as well as vinifying the wines separately. All three of the following wines were aged 36 months in 100% new French oak. My favorite, as it would be if we were tasting Guigal’s La Mouline, is the 2012 Proprietary Red Weill Vineyard Exposition 3, which is 84% Syrah and 16% Viognier with 10% whole-clusters. From a south-facing block, this is definitely a wine of great intensity and incredible complexity, with notes of lychee nut, honeysuckle, black raspberries, crème de cassis and blackberry pie. Full-bodied, opulent, voluptuously textured and massively fruity and rich, this is a stunner and a profound wine, as are its two siblings. This is a great experiment, and the good news, I suppose, is that there are 125 cases of each of these incredible expressions of Syrah.