Bonny Doon Vineyard, Central Coast (California) Syrah 2012

 This latest Le Pousseur Syrah from Bonny Doon is a spicy pepper pot of a wine, with savory notes mouth-filling fruit despite a relatively modest alcohol-by-volume level of 13.5 percent. Winemaker Randall Grahm is the master of extracting flavor and body from grapes farmed and harvested to produce lower levels of alcohol. As with most of Randall’s reds, this wine will improve as it evolves over the next several years, providing one has the patience to cellar it for an extended period.