My parents came to visit one summer and we went out to Solvang for the day. We stopped into a small store that was doing wine tastings and I bought a few bottles of this Red Rock Syrah. 
After enjoying those bottles with friends, I eventually opted to buy a case. I never did that before nor since so you can imagine how I much I enjoyed this wine.
Now we have just 1 bottle left (well techincally a bottle and a half, but that won't last long). We decided it was a good night to indulge in my favorite wine. I hoped that it was still good. Although the cork was dried out, we managed to filter those pieces out with a coffee filter (from an art project at work...clean of course).
The smell was exactly right. The taste just as wonderful as my first sip so many years ago. I don't have a sophisticated palate (in fact I don't really know what that means). But this wine, sigh, was perfect.
They say any bottle of wine can be wonderful in the right company. Tonight I understood. Nothing exceptional about today, just a regular Thursday night, made special with this bottle.
The vineyard still exists although I don't think they bottle the wine under this label any more. I will be doing some research tomorrow.
Red Rock Syrah, thank you for the memories.
