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A single-vineyard offering from Osoyoos in the South Okanagan, where intense sunlight has made a star out of syrah. Stag's Hollow has turned out a richly fruity and meaty effort from free-run juice. The palate offers up intense blackberry syrup, smoky bacon and spicy cracked pepper along with dark chocolate and underbrush. Generously but smartly oaked, matured partly in new and partly in more neutral third-fill barrels. Approachable now but worth cellaring for five to seven years for more of that leathery, earthy complexity. Available direct, stagshollowwinery.com.

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