Savage Girl Next Door Syrah 2023

96 points -The Wine Advocate

"The Savage Wines 2023 Syrah The Girl Next Door represents the first time the wine is made with a blend of fruit from two separate vineyards. Both are quite close to the beach and, no surprise, the wine has pronounced salinity. Duncan Savage says that sometimes the vines have sodium powder on the leaves. The goal was to create a "marine Syrah," and the wine hits the nail on the head. Instead of white pepper, you get black pepper. You also get lavender and perfumed iris root. The wine is lightly sweet but extremely polished and fine. This is a very unusual Syrah that would benefit from another two or three years of bottle age. Duncan Savage especially loves working on these vineyards so close to the beach because he can "get a surf in" when he wants." -ML 06/2025