2017 Horsepower "The Tribe Vineyard" Walla Walla Syrah

Horsepower specializes in powerful Northern-Rhône inspired Syrah from Christophe's single vineyards. The wines are deeply brooding, very tannic, unfined and unfiltered, and full of feral, rustic flavors more reminiscent of the inky, powerful Syrahs from legendary producers in Cornas. Water and nutrients are low, so the highly stressed vines produce very small yields, which create wines with tremendous intensity and complexity reflective of the stony soils of Walla Walla. It often takes four or more vines to make one single bottle of wine! These wines are all critically acclaimed every vintage and many of them have received 100 point scores across multiple vintages. - KELLY RAU

97 points from Jeb Dunnuck: "Beautiful notes of red and black raspberries, tobacco, plum sauce, loamy earth, and loads of floral notes emerge from the 2017 Syrah The Tribe Vineyard, another tight, closed wine that’s going to benefit from bottle age. Medium to full-bodied, with notable freshness as well as plenty of underlying structure… Beautifully done and one of the standouts in the lineup…"