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Alban "Patrina" Syrah

2021
While they are thrilled to make wines that many folks open to punctuate milestone celebrations, achievements, and very special moments, they very much cherish the opportunity to offer something they find remarkable and in sufficient quantity that you can enjoy it more ‘routinely’. 2021 Patrina is big on aromatics and black fruits with iodine, a tiny pinch of white pepper, elegance and restraint. A wine you can open just about any time and with a broad spectrum of dishes. If you like graceful wines, 2021 is your vintage.
Patrina is a gypsy word for leaf and grass blades. They wanted a gypsy association for this wine because it is not a wine from a ‘place’ so much as one shaped by them; their traditions and joys. Gypsies have a very strong and romantic culture, but they are not tied to any particular location.
By mounding up patrin in specific configurations called Patrina, Gypsies mark secret trails that fellow clan members can follow to special gathering places. Patrina guide these nomads to the site of what starts out as a simple get together underscored with wine and song. These bohemian celebrations of nothing in particular inevitably escalate with great abandon into wildly hedonistic carousing.
Their vineyards are a patchwork of isolated soil types that you may recognize as Reva, Lorraine, Seymour’s and Pandora (very much wines of a place). Between and in route to these well healed sites are vineyards that are not so obviously distinct. They have blended these disparate and ‘disenfranchised’ blocks into a single wine called Patrina. Like the Gypsy trails from which Patrina derives its name, they hope these bottles lead you to some great merriment, or more.
While the grapes for Patrina are raised with the same detail and attentiveness as the rest of their vineyards, and then fermented open top with indigenous yeast, gentle pump overs and a few punch downs once soft, it is bottled unfined and unfiltered after ‘just’ 28 months in 60% new French oak, bottled unfined and unfiltered using gravity. to preserve its youthful exuberance. 4000 cases produced. All the density and concentration folks have come to expect from their reds with black and blue fruits, mineral notes, and flowers.
94 points, "The 2021 Patrina checks in as 90% Syrah and 10% Viognier that was bottled in March of 2024. It has a beautifully perfumed, complex, nuanced style in its darker berry-fruited, peppery, floral violet, and subtle orange blossom-like aromas and flavors. I love its overall balance, it has silky, polished tannins, and just a classic, seamless, incredibly impressive style. It’s a terrific introduction to the wines of this incredible estate." - Jeb Dunnuck

Info

  • WINEMAKER: JOHN ALBAN
  • COLOR: RED
  • SOIL: Loamy
  • VARIETAL: 90% Syrah, 10% Viognier
  • COUNTRY: USA
  • REGION: CALIFORNIA
  • APPELLATION: SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
  • VINTAGE: 2021
  • FARMING PRACTICES: SUSTAINABLE
  • IMPORTER: IPO WINES