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■　ワイン名 シネ・クア・ノン　 アトランティス Fe　203-1(a,b,c)　シラー ■　ヴィンテージ 2005 ■　原産国 アメリカ ■　地域 カリフォルニア州　サンタバーバラ ■　タイプ 赤ワイン ■　ぶどう品種 シラー93% グルナッシュ5% ヴィオニエ2% ■　アルコール度数 15.3％ ■　内容量 750ml ■　ご注意 開封後は保存に十分お気を付けの上 お早めにお飲みください。 2005ヴィンテージのワイン名は“アトランティスFe203” ラベルのデザインは荒廃したゴーストタウンに佇む廃墟となった工場の写真です。 ■マンフレッド・クランクルは今回のラベルデザインについてこう語ります。『ドイツの詩人のハイネは「物事を正しく見れば、どんな物でも美しく見える」と言った。トム・ウェイツは壊れた楽器だけを集めたバンドで作ったアルバムに「美しい病」と名付けた。殴られて出来た青アザだって見方によってはお洒落な模様に見えるだろ？妻と子供がバカンスに出かけて留守番をしていた時、暇つぶしにゴーストタウンに趣味の写真を撮りにいったんだ。有刺鉄線が張ってあり立ち入り禁止になっていたが気にせずにね。そこに広がる景色はまるでNASAのサイトに出てきそうな風景が広がっていたんだ。そこに火星人が出てきてもおかしくない雰囲気にわくわくしたよ。撮れた写真はどれも実物で見るより色が鮮明で魅力的な写真だよ。1000年後の人がこの写真を見たらどう思うだろう？きっと俺が想像する滅亡した古代アトランティスの様に感じるんじゃないかな。だからこの写真にアトランティスという名前を付け、Fe203(鉄錆の元素組成)としたんだ。 テイスティング　2008年6月 WAポイント　100 ┃公開媒体： Wine Advocate #177 （2008-06-30） ┃レビュアー： Robert Parker ┃飲み頃： now-2023 The perfect 2005 Syrah Atlantis Fe 203-1a,b,c is a blend of 93% Syrah, 5% Grenache, and 2% Viognier, with 25% whole clusters. Whereas the Ode to E is all from the Eleven Confessions Vineyard, this cuvee is a combination of 43% from the estate vineyard, 28% from the White Hawk Vineyard, 21% from the Alban Vineyard, and 8% from the Bien Nacido Vineyard. The good news is there are nearly 1,500 cases of this recently released offering. An extraordinarily flowery nose interwoven with scents of blueberries, blackberries, incense, and graphite soars from the glass. Although not the biggest or most concentrated Syrah Krankl has made, it is one of the most nuanced, elegant, and complex. It remains full-bodied, but builds incrementally on the palate, and comes across as elegant and delicate, especially when compared to many California Syrahs. Nevertheless, the intensity is mind-boggling, and the finish lasts for nearly a minute. Drink this amazing effort over the next 10-15+ years. I don’t know whether it’s catching on or not, but there is a school of nonsense going around that somehow low yields are overrated. Of course, farmers who treat their vineyards like industrial plants, and wineries who do not control vineyards, or have accountants running the bottom line, are the usual suspects making this specious argument. From my perspective, thirty years of experience have always suggested that vineyards with the lowest yields tend to produce the most interesting wines. Sine Qua Non has emerged as one of the world’s greatest wineries over the last decade, and low yields are part of the reason. Yields for their white wine varietals have gone from .91 tons per acre in 2003, to their most generous yield of 1.86 tons per acre in 2005. Their red varietal yields have increased from a scary, financially disastrous .32 tons per acre for the 2003 Grenache, to a whopping 2.11 tons per acre in 2005. In 2007, yields averaged 1.28 tons per acre for the white varietals, 1.31 tons per acre for Grenache, and 1.52 tons per acre for Syrah. (I did not taste the 2007 SQN wines, but other Central Coast 2007s I did taste suggest this will be a great vintage for this region.) When tasting wines such as Sine Qua Non, these statistics mean something because the Grenache is the finest in the New World, the Syrah begs to be compared with the greatest of France, California, and Australia, and the white wine blends assembled by Manfred Krankl are as sumptuous and complex as the world’s finest Chardonnays, even though there is little Chardonnay included in recent vintages, and there will be none in future releases. The ultimate “garage” winery, this operation’s back alley warehouse looks like a set scene from the movie Mad Max, but inside are the elixirs of dreams. Despite Krankl’s already lofty reputation, he continues to fine tune and build more nuances and complexity into his wines without sacrificing their intrinsic exuberance, purity, intensity, and individuality. I am increasingly convinced that no one in Australia, America, South America, or anywhere else in the New World makes a finer, more complex and compelling Grenache than Manfred Krankl. He is now producing two Grenache cuvees, an experimental, highly successful, long barrel-aged (40-43 months) effort, and a Grenache that is aged in oak for nearly two years prior to bottling.There are also two renditions of Syrah, a long-aged offering that is essentially an hommage to Marcel Guigal’s single vineyard Cote Roties (the SQN Syrahs are aged 42 months in 100% new French oak), and a Syrah that is bottled after 21-22 months in oak. These cuvees are rarely 100% Syrah as Krankl frequently adds in some co-fermented Viognier as well as Grenache. There are four sweet wines being made, but, unfortunately, the Mr. K. series will end because of the premature and tragic death of the renowned Alois (Luis) Kracher, the genius behind so many extraordinary sweet wines from Austria, and a partner with Krankl. In a year filled with some extraordinary tastings (2005 Bordeaux, 2007 Southern Rhones to come), this tasting at the so-called “garage d’or” on the back streets of Ventura stands along side the wine-tasting/dinner at the Great Wall of China as one of the two wine-tasting events of the year.