Luis Seabra, Mono C (Castelao), 2022 soVilmart&Cie0525 Newfound’s 2022 Syrah is a

Newfound’s 2022 Syrah is a standout example of how California can channel Syrah’s wilder

add layers of complexity

or simply sip it slowly on its own—this is meditative wine

so there's no blending to sand down the edges

Luis Seabra, Mono C (Castelao), 2022 soVilmart&Cie0525 Newfound’s 2022 Syrah is aLuis Seabra has become a true superstar of Portuguese wine, and this bottle is one of his best experiments. Castelo is a grape of the sunny south, around Setbal and Lisboaso finding it here, on a single plot of yellow schist at 450 meters up in the cool Douro, is a genuine oddity, and exactly the kind of terroir puzzle Seabra loves. His "Mono" series bottles one grape at a time to let the site speak, and this one was whole cluster fermented on wild