The Psychedelic
Estate Single Vineyard Syrah · Rocks District 10 / 15 $75
Pure Rocks Syrah. No oak. No filter.
Foot-crushed estate fruit off softball-sized basalt cobbles. Savory to the core.
Roasted meat and tobacco over wet stone, with licorice and plum; pure Rocks savor.
Owen Bargreen Top 100 20252023 vintage
Grapes
Pure estate Syrah
100% Syrah, all from the estate Stoney Vine block. Roasted meat, licorice, tobacco, wet stone, and plum.
Terroir
Basalt cobbles, 100–300 ft deep
Stoney Vine grows in the ancient Walla Walla riverbed: softball-sized basalt cobbles washed down from the Blue Mountains, 100 to 300 ft deep. The stones store heat and force roots deep, for the savory, gamey, iodine-tinged Rocks signature.
Region
The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater
Washington's most distinctive Syrah terroir, just over the Oregon line.
Winemaking
Barely any new oak
Foot-crushed, native ferment with stems; 70% whole cluster, 16 months on the lees in 90% neutral / 10% new French oak puncheons, bottled unfined and unfiltered. 500 cases.
What it is
Why it matters
Why it's cool
The Psychedelic Estate Single Vineyard Syrah Composition100% Syrah
AVA(s)The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater
VineyardsStoney Vine
Oak / aging16 months on the lees; 90% neutral / 10% new French oak puncheons; unfined/unfiltered
Whole cluster56%
Cases650
Alc13.1%
pH3.94
TA5.8 g/L
Scores 2023 IWR 96Wine Enthusiast 95