2024 Kobayashi Syrah Sans Soufre, Washington, USA Etienne et Claude Courtois one on the hilltop gets

one on the hilltop gets sun all day

Annually released black walnut liqueur produced by Forthave Spirits in Brooklyn

but a gorgeous contrast to shellfish like crab and raw oysters or a range of seafood

The only sparkling fully from Pinot Noir produced at Nowack that is from an estate single-vineyard

yet the overall impression is one of freshness and drinkability

2024 Kobayashi Syrah Sans Soufre, Washington, USA Etienne et Claude Courtois one on the hilltop gets97% Syrah, 3% Viognier from WeatherEye Vineyard, located at the top of Red Mountain in eastern Yakima Valley. The Rhone varieties Travis and Mario source from WeatherEye are ungrafted, single stake trained, and planted at high density on rocky, fractured basalt soils. The wine was whole cluster fermented with ambient yeasts, and matured for 22 months in French oak (25% new) before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.