Grape variety: Syrah (3% Viognier)Region: Amador, California
Food pairing: Spice-rubbed grilled leg of lamb
Price: $69.99
2010 July Wine Club Premiere Selection
Favia wines are a labor of love from the husband and wife team of Annie Favia and Andy Erickson. You may have heard of Andy, as he’s the winemaker for such famously high-scoring wines as Screaming Eagle, Arietta, Dalla Valle, Ovid and Jonata. (Yes, apparently everything Andy touches turns to liquid gold.) But if you haven’t yet heard of Annie, you’re missing out on a budding superstar of viticulture. Annie lets Andy do the winemaking; her passion is for grape growing. A student of enology since 1993, she has learned from some of the best in the business. She studied under John Kongsgaard, Cathy Corison, and David Abreu: three very, very well-respected viticulturalists. And now she oversees the grapes for her own Favia label.
Andy and Annie’s 2007 Quarzo Syrah, the third vintage they’ve made, is notably one of their best yet. Sourced from Ann Kraemer’s Shake Ridge Ranch in the Sierra Foothills of Amador County California, it’s named “Quarzo” for the quartz crystals that are seen glittering amongst the rugged volcanic rock on the property. Annie and Andy feel it’s an ideal place to grow Rhone varietals, and given the attention the grapes receive from steward Ann Kramer and from Annie Favia herself, its producing some of California’s best Syrah. Only 220 cases of this wine were produced, and the Wine Spectator Insider has already given it 95 points, noting “immense and expressive, offering broad, expansive layers of wild berry...fresh loamy earth, pepper, spice and nutmeg, with a rich mouthfeel that lets the berry fruit fan out and gain nuance and complexity.” Drinking beautifully now and should continue to do so through 2015 or later.
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