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Price: $6.99 @ Trader Joe’s
What They Said:
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Price: $4.99 @ Trader Joe’s
What They Said:
Per the bottle “Layers of dark fruit are complimented by an elegant blend of French and American oak. Supple tannins create a memorable and long-lasting finish on this classic Rhone-style red wine. Our Syrah is a perfect companion for grilled steak or lamb.”
What I Think:
Fresno State Winery, [...]

Price: $5.99 @ Trader Joe’s
What They Said:
A multitude of opinions on this one in the blogsphere but no luck finding any information from the winemaker here…All I can tell you as they seem to be negociant as they appear to be located in Healdsburg but make Syrah in the Central Coast and Zinfandel from Lodi.
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Update 2008-Oct-07 – Trader Joe’s has reduced the price on this bottling to $2.99
Price: $4.99 @ Trader Joe’s
What They Said:
Per the winery “Take a sip, and the velvety-smooth body caresses your palate as flavors tumble over one another in succession – strawberry, black cherry, plum, blueberries, licorice, white pepper, leather – continuing on to [...]

Price: $4.99 @ Trader Joe’s
What They Said:
Per the winery “Our Avila Syrah is a deep, dark, dense, and chewy wine with an abundant mouthful of blueberry, black plum, and black currant fruit flavors. Generous in the nose, this Syrah is approachable with plush fruit flavors layered with Asian spice, fig, black pepper, and orange peel. [...]

Price: $5.99 @ Trader Joe’s
What They Said:
Per quaffability “Ever drive by a vineyard late in the season – I mean really late, after the kids have finished off the last of their Halloween candy – and seen vines still laden with fruit, even though the autumn colors of the leaves are fading to brown. And [...]

Price: $25.00 direct from the winery
What They Said:
Per the winery “This wine was aged in barrels specially designed for Syrah, this opaque-purple wine is incredibly complex and enticing with aromatics and flavors of smoky blackberry, white pepper and herbes de Provence, wrapped in a blanket of cassis with hints of anise.
Pair this sumptuous Syrah with [...]

Price: $12.99 @ K&L Wines
What They Said:
Per K&L Wines “Cory Holbrook, former winemaker and proprietor of Bridlewood Winery, makes this intense, richly fruited syrah. Full of freshly picked boyenberry, slathered in vanilla-y oak and spiced lightly with just the slighest pinch of lavender this is a wine for any fan of domestic or Australian [...]

Price: $4.52 @ BevMo (retails at $8.99 a bottle)
What They Said:
Per BevMo “A soft-spoken Syrah, the ‘05 Pepperwood Grove is fine example of this varietal; grapey and easy on the palate; perky yet smooth in the aftertaste; a fine choice with hamburgers.”
What I Think:
This is the second bottle of this wine from the 5c sale. [...]

Price: $4.52 @ BevMo (retails at $8.99 a bottle)
What They Said:
Per BevMo “A soft-spoken Syrah, the ‘05 Pepperwood Grove is fine example of this varietal; grapey and easy on the palate; perky yet smooth in the aftertaste; a fine choice with hamburgers.”
What I Think:
Another from the 5c sale. Pepperwood Grove always hasa soft spot in [...]