The color is an intense red, with dark purplish tints, but is somewhat muddy.

It has a big aroma, but it’s soft, in the sense of being rather pleasant and not overwhelming. It smells earthy, with notes of rain, dirt, raisins, and plums.

The wine is rather smooth, with a good, bitter, spicy, strong tannin end. The taste doesn’t exactly jump out at you as phenomenal, and the wine lacks complexity, but the taste is still rather good. The wine picks up a very oaky taste as you hold it in your mouth, which works to its disadvantage—it kind of blunts the spiciness that I find so pleasing in a Syrah. The taste is a bit bland and boring after a while, but the wine has great fundamentals and is very easy to drink, with a good body to it.

Overall Score: 3.8/5.0.

Ruby/burgundy color. Gleaming, with reflections on the purplish side. Rather mature-looking. Nice legs.

Great, strong, oak and cinnamon aroma, with a hint of fruits like sour cherries.

Very smooth. Causes a puckering of the mouth, but bitterness is rather tame, controlled, and soft. It has a smooth, fruity finish to it and is rather long. It’s also subtly spicy. The taste of plums, peppers, and leather is prominent.

Overall Score: 4.0/5.0. Much better than the vast majority of Argentine Syrahs, and rather cheap for the quality.

I wasn’t able to get the year for this wine, but it should be relatively new, i.e. a 2007 or 2008.

Nice color for a relatively cheap wine. Almost completely black.

Great aroma of black fruits and pepper.

Taste is a little one-dimensional. Nice, strong, cherry, bittersweet tannin taste. Pleasant, though not the best. Has a light finish. Light body too. Great aftertaste. A bit spicy at end, adding some complexity. Overall though, a bit too bitter and too unstructured.

Overall Score: 3.5/5.0. Not bad for a cheap ordinary drink.

Nice ruby color, though nothing very notable of it.

Soft aroma. Grapes, raisins, plums, and coffee in the nose. Plus, there’s a nice earthiness and oakiness to it. The aroma itself is very interesting.

Taste is rather oaky for a syrah. It’s very warming and burns on the way down. It’s rather smooth too. Although it’s rather light for a syrah, it’s rather complex and very round, as the flavor really reaches all the way to the back of the mouth. It’s direct but has subtle notes of spice and coffee, with some sweetness in there too. The overtones are fantastic, though for me they are too weak.

Overall Score: 4.2/5.0