With our warm days and cool nights, the Applegate Valley is an ideal growing environment for syrah, and we have taken advantage of this by planting four syrah clones across our ninety-five-acre site in three soil types to showcase how well syrah can capture that unique sense of place in the glass. Troon’s 2024 Syrah blends three of those Syrah
clones: 470, 174, and the Joseph Phelps.
The fruit for the 2024 Troon Syrah was hand-harvested and put into open-top bins and one large concrete vessel, with an average of 30% whole clusters. Including whole clusters can enhance syrah’s spice and pepper characteristics, broaden the mid-palate, and add more freshness to the wine. As enjoyable as this wine already is, a few years of patience will let this wine fully evolve into an even more complex wine.
Like all Troon Vineyard wines, fermentation started spontaneously from indigenous yeasts with no additives. The wine was handled gently during fermentation, with just one punch-
down or foot-treading per day, and it finished roughly three to four weeks later. The wine from the concrete fermentor was pressed off and returned to age in concrete, while the bin-fermented wines were pressed off and aged in neutral French oak barrels. The Syrah
aged for 18 months in the cellar before being blended from roughly 50% concrete-aged and 50% barrel-aged, and bottled unfined and unfiltered, with a small dose of sulfur added at bottling.