The vibrant violet color sparkles on the shiny liquid surface.
It has the perfect nose of black pepper, violets and roasted plums in terms of pure Syrah character and purity.
There is no aroma or flavor of new oak, and instead you can sense the essence of Syrah blended with mineral-infused fruit, spice, and earthy nuances.
Fresh and smooth, with hints of chocolate-covered cherries, candied violets, coastal forest air and fig and plum pie.
We recommend serving it at around 12°C, especially in summer.
This 100% Syrah wine was inspired by the vibrant Syrah of Saint-Joseph in the Rhone region, and is now becoming a benchmark in its own right.
As with our Saint-Joseph wines, we select grapes from multiple meticulously tended vineyards to produce a delicious wine with the vibrant freshness and style that only Syrah grown on cool slopes can offer.
Blended in early 2019 and aged in concrete tanks, it avoids the density, creaminess and over-extraction that are typically considered a good thing.
This wine has been finished with a concentration that allows you to feel the beauty of the grapes themselves, without hiding the unique characteristics of the place where they were grown or the variety.
Pax is a young family-run winery that started in 2000.
Owners Pax and Pam Marley each aspired to become Master Sommeliers.
They study hard every day, meet other like-minded friends at a study group, and fall in love.
Pax grew up in a family with no connection to wine and studied art history in college.
While working part-time at a restaurant and thinking about his future, he soon became deeply interested in the history of the drink known as "wine."
When the two of them traveled to France to study wine, they became completely fascinated by the relationship between grapes, people, and the soil, and the culture of "wine" that is deeply rooted in Europe.
In 1997, the couple moved to California and decided to pursue a career in the wine industry.
Pax was then hired as a wine buyer for Dean & DeLuca, where he was inspired by a different genre of drink: California wine, building on his knowledge of European wine.
Of these, the most shocking to Pax was Syrah. He began to realize that if California's Pauillac is Oakville and Pomerol is Carneros' Merlot, then there was no California Syrah to rival the Northern Rhone.
In 2000, he started Pax Wine Cellars with the aim of producing Syrah from the vineyards he felt he had come across.
What these vineyards have in common is that they are all located in the cool climate of Sonoma County and Mendocino, producing wines that are full-bodied and delicately expressive.
The Pax brand, which focused on a niche angle, gained momentum, and Pax and Pam, along with some investors, launched the Wind Gap brand in 2006.
While Pax is a brand specializing in Syrah and Rhone varieties, Wind Gap is a hip brand full of playfulness, releasing not only Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, but also less familiar grape varieties such as Trousseau Gris and Valdiguier.
However, in 2018, due to disagreements with investors, he decided to divest from the Wind Gap brand and focus on his own Pax brand.
Currently, Pax focuses on Syrah, which has texture and freshness reminiscent of the Northern Rhone, as well as rare varieties such as Trousseau Gris and Valdiguier, which they worked on during their time at Wind Gap.
The style is unmistakably "New California", with no pesticides or substances not found in nature being used in the fields, natural fermentation using indigenous yeasts, and minimal addition of sulfites.