SKU: 08206
Booker Vineyard Fracture 2016
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750ml
Save $81.00 (40%)
$118.00
| Category | Red Wine |
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| Region | California, Central Coast, Paso Robles |
| Brand | Booker Vineyard |
Just over half of our property is planted with Syrah. We put our best barrels of Syrah into Fracture and then age in 228L Barriques. The name is a tribute to the high content of limestone in our soil. Limestone causes our vineyard soil to fracture rather than crumble.
Jeb Dunnuck
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Wine Advocate
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Made of 100% Syrah aged 18 months in 70% new French oak, the 2016 Syrah Fracture is deep garnet-purple colored, opening with exuberant notes of crushed blackberries, black cherries and cassis with hints of asphalt, star anise, truffles and mossy bark. Full, firm and with a rock-solid frame of grainy tannins, it has tons of taut, muscular fruit, finishing long and mineral tinged