90
points
Red Lava 2004 Reserve Syrah (Red Hills Lake County)
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$25
The promise is there in this ripe, plush wine, with its rich tannins and good acidity. It’s rewarding in herb-tinged blackberry jam, plum, violet, coffee and chocolate flavors, with a distinct white pepper edge. As good as it is, the next step is to build in extra layers of complexity.
— S.H.
(11/1/2007)