Tensley, Santa Barbara County, Colson Canyon Vineyard, Syrah 2019
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96 Points Jeb Dunnuck
A more elegant, perfumed, floral wine from this site, the 2019 Syrah Colson Canyon offers Côte Rôtie-like black raspberry, violets, spring flowers, and gamey, meat-driven aromatics. Medium to full-bodied and beautifully textured, with a kiss of background oak, it's going to show nicely right out of the gate yet also have two decades of longevity.
95 Points Wine Spectator
Gutsy yet plush and expressive, this red bursts with fresh raspberry and blueberry flavors that take on garrigue, smoked meat and pepper accents as it builds tension toward medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2031. 1,500 cases made.
95 Points Vinous
The 2019 Syrah Colson Canyon Vineyard is one of my favorite wines in this range. Bright and punchy, the Colson Canyon is such a distinctive wine. Red/purplish berry fruit, wild flowers, spice, leather and rose petal open in the glass. More than anything else, I admire the wine's drive.
Colson Canyon | The Tensely's Signature
After two decades of steadily rising scores, Colson Canyon Syrah is the standard-bearer of Joey Tensley’s unmatched style, and the 2019 shows why: Boasting intense dark berry aromas tinged with smoke and peppercorn, followed by a dense and concentrated palate framed by chewy tannins, it’s a nimble beast that shows the richness of sunny California and the savoriness of the Northern Rhône. No wonder it garnered a stellar 94- to 96-point score from Jeb Dunnuck, a critic who tastes the best of California and the Rhône Valley every year—and still manages to be wowed by Joey Tensley.
Two decades ago, long before he had pulled in more 94- to 99-point scores from Robert Parker than any other American Syrah-maker, Joey Tensley was a Bakersfield farm boy who took a daring plunge into winemaking. Now, he’s the California legend whose reds Jeb Dunnuck calls “dollar for dollar” “some of the greatest wines out there.”
That’s in large part thanks to Colson Canyon, which Joey first laid eyes upon in 1997, the year before he launched his label. The site had just been planted to vine, but Tensley quickly saw its fantastic potential. He became the founder’s first client, and in 2001, he released his first vineyard-designate Syrah from the vineyard.
Joey and his wife Jennifer purchased Colson Canyon about five years ago, basically ensuring that he would always be able to tap his most distinctive site, which covers 115 acres but has only 16 acres of grapes. Because the elevation and rugged terrain make so much of the site untamable, Joey believes that only three more acres have the potential to be planted.
But forbidding sites can also be the most blessed, and Colson Canyon proves it year in and year out—and the quality has climbed even higher since the Tensleys took over. They thin the canopy, they carefully monitor moisture, and they drop fruit when they need to. The reward of all this hands-on care is one of California’s greatest red wine values, bar none.
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