Alban Vineyards - Edna Valley - Seymour's Vineyard Syrah 2006 Bouteille (75cl)
Alban Vineyards Seymour’s Vineyard Syrah 2006 is a 100% Syrah red wine produced by Alban Vineyards in the Edna Valley appellation in California. The Wine Advocate awards it 98+ points out of 100 and recommends drinking it from 2009 to 2049. The publication describes a highly concentrated Syrah with nuances of smoked meat and forest floor, carried by a rich and complex texture, with no sense of heaviness.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- Etats-Unis
- Région
- Californie
- Appellation
- Edna Valley
- Producteur / Domaine
- Alban Vineyards
- Millésime
- 2006
Alban Vineyards
Alban Vineyards is a family-owned estate in Edna Valley, on California's Central Coast, dedicated to Rhône grape varieties. John Alban crafts single-vineyard Syrahs there — Reva, Lorraine, and Seymour’s — as well as Pandora, made from Grenache grown on Seymour’s Vineyard. The vineyard covers approximately 66 acres and relies on viticulture attentive to the expression of its diverse soils.
- Owner
- John et Lorraine Alban
- Maître de chais
- John Alban
- Surface (ha)
- 26.71 ha
Histoire du domaine
John Alban's interest in Rhône grape varieties crystallized at the age of 24 after discovering a Condrieu. After studying oenology at the University of California, Davis, he received a scholarship that allowed him to train in France with established producers ranging from Beaujolais to Provence, while studying soil and climate correlations with California. Starting in the mid-1980s, he propagated selections of Viognier, Roussanne, Grenache, and Syrah that were very rare at the time, and later acquired the Edna Valley property with his family in 1989. The estate released a varietal Roussanne in 1991 presented as the first produced in the United States. John Alban subsequently played a major role in spreading Viognier and other Rhône varieties in California by supplying plant material to numerous winegrowers. The estate's cuvées gradually became structured around distinct parcels: Reva bears his mother's first name, Seymour’s his father's, while Lorraine was born from a lot of Syrah isolated for the first time in 1995 and named in tribute to the woman who became his wife. John and Lorraine Alban are today listed as proprietors, with John remaining the estate's winemaker.
