2004 Traverso Syrah Shenandoah Valley

Purchase 2004 Traverso Syrah Shenandoah Valley

For our wines, we carefully select only grapes from old-growth, hillside vineyards with low harvest-yields to intensify the ripe flavors and aromas of the grapes. Moreover, we hand-harvest the grapes when they taste ripe, not when they have a predetermined sugar level (we have found that, even with a theoretical ideal sugar level, the grapes do not necessarily have the flavors we want, so we pick on how they taste), and then hand-sort the grapes to help ensure that only the best fruit is used in our wine. We then craft our wine with a maximal naturalist / minimal interventionist approach, age our wine only in high-quality French oak barrels, and bottle our wine when the ripe berry flavors have been enriched, but not overwhelmed, by the oak.

Our objective is to make a food-friendly, high-quality, medium-bodied, well-integrated, moderate-alcohol wine that will complement your food, and that will enable you to taste and experience the natural, ripe, lush flavors and bouquet, and the rich varietal character and supple mouth-feel of our wine. Robert Traverso winemaker

Purchase 2004 Traverso Syrah Shenandoah Valley