Burrowing Owl Syrah 2019 - Canada

Burrowing Owl is one of Canada's best known estates, and for good reason! Jim Wyse purchased the vineyard in 1993, carefully selected for its potential to produce high quality grapes, and immediately began to replant the vineyards. Ever since their first vintage the estate's wines have been sought after.

Spring arrived early in 2019, allowing for early and even bud break, flowering and fruit set. This was followed by a warm, yet more moderate summer. The summer heat was enough to produce nicely concentrated levels of ripeness in the grapes and the cool autumn provided conditions for acidity to be retained in the fruit as well, providing the wine with a lively freshness to balance the ripe fruit notes. Hand picked in the final week of October, sorted, destemmed and slightly crushed before being gravity fed into the fermentation tanks where the juice fermented for 25 days. Aging took place in a mixture of oaks and barrel age for 16months.

An intense and complex Syrah showing ripe damson plum, blackberry and
blueberry along with toasty vanilla oak, chocolate coated liqueur cherries
and some savoury charred meat, bacon, black pepper and licorice alongside
a subtle incense note. The palate is full bodied and richly textured with crisp
acidity and firm, ripe tannins giving plenty of structure to age. Pair this with slowly cooked lamb shoulder and grilled portobello mushrooms tossed in garlic and thyme infused olive oil or grilled achiote rubbed flank steak.