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2022 K Vintners "Motor City Kitty - Boushey Vineyard" Yakima Valley Syrah

2022 K Vintners "Motor City Kitty - Boushey Vineyard" Yakima Valley Syrah

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Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 07/2025

The famous McCrea Cuvee Orleans came from this vineyard, and the 2022 Syrah Motor City Kitty continues the site’s reputation for greatness, offering a ripe style and lots of wood, but showing something very special in its spicy, meaty, herbal complexion, memorable particularly for its sense of purity and balance. Made in a dense, brooding, full-bodied style, it spent time fermenting in concrete tank on its skins for 45 days before settling into 500-liter puncheon for 15 months on the lees. Dark fruit and spicy dried herbs accent the core of the wine, which will benefit from further aging, 10-12 years. (VB)

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98

James Suckling

Review Date: 03/2025
This is an extremely complex, smoky, terroir-driven syrah that offers crushed wild berries and plum skins layered with hints of white pepper and cured meat. Broad, mouth-filling and full-bodied, it has a mineral, peppery edge and dusty, very fine tannins. Long and persistent, showing hints of crushed herbs and ashy soil in the end. Drink or hold.

95

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 04/2025
The 2022 MCK Syrah comes from the Boushey Vineyard and was matured for 20 months in new French oak puncheons. It has layered aromas of blackcurrant, resinous herbs, camphor, cracked pepper and mint. The full-bodied palate offers concentrated, herbs-laced flavors. It’s framed by chalky tannins and vibrant acidity and has a long, latent finish. It will benefit from at least five years in the cellar. (EB)

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K&L Buyer
Review Date: 07/2025
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We just jumped on rare chance to grab a chunk of this brand new release at an extra special price! This wine is always one of the most highly rated and sought after K Vintners wines, and right now we can offer it at 25% off the regular pricing! The new 2022 release of Motor City Kitty has already racked up two 98-point scores from Jeb Dunnuck and James Suckling, with a solid 95-point back up from The Wine Advocate! Hailing from one specific block of the legendary Boushey Vineyard, this hillside parcel is the highest point on the estate featuring extremely rocky volcanic soils and wind exposure that concentrates yields. As with most K Vintners wines, fermentation is completed whole-cluster, and the wine is given a long, slow elevage in large format oak as is traditional with Rhone varieties. The results once again are spectacular. It's brimming with dark fruits, plum, blackberry, plus dried herbs, smoldering embers, pepper-crusted steak and some crushed rock mineral. Quite rich and fruit driven, but with plenty of savory elements so essential to the best expressions of Syrah. An exceptional value especially at our razor sharp price!

Notes

From the highest elevation parcel of the legendary Boushey Vineyard. A hillside block with rocky volcanic soils. Whole-cluster fermentation and maturation in large format oak casks.

Product Details

Origin: Washington, United States

Type/Varietal: Shiraz/Syrah

Alcohol Content: 14%

SKU: #1906388

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