12,5% abv. This continues to get better and better. It has been about half a year since my previous bottle, and though I remember that to have been open and pleasurable, this bottle is even more so. A lovely, elegant, pure scent of Syrah: dark fruit, dark olives, minerality, and some of that slightly gamy/meaty aroma I love in the grape. Ripe fruit, but not the lusciousness verging on over-ripeness that many 2005s seem to have, but rather it is an elegant, racy, palate-cleansing, nervy wine. Extremely enjoyable already, though it is young. Excellent.
And just to underline what is in my sig, I do work for the Finnish importer of Texier, so this is obviously just spam (though I don't work with actual wine, but rather bookkeeping) and therefore no one should take my note seriously...