Kendric Vineyards

Kendric Vineyards owner Stewart Johnson is the poster child for following your passion in life. Johnson's seminal moment was when he was a Hastings law school student, sitting in an office as an intern, and “wishing I was pulling up rocks in my parents’ vineyard.” The Johnson family owns Reward Ranch in the Shenandoah Valley, near Plymouth, and Johnson realized that’s where his heart was, and in 2001, he planted two acres of Syrah on the ranch. The family also farms five acres of Sangiovese which it sells to neighboring Vino Noceto for its reserve Sangiovese bottlings.

Shenandoah Valley is ‘mostly Zinfandel country,” says Johnson, with its hot days and nights cooled by the Delta breezes, but he wanted to cultivate Syrah, with a different approach, he says. “I like to pick ahead of other vintners growing Syrah in the region. I am not looking for that heavy, ripe, extracted style. I want liveliness to the fruit.”

Kendric Vineyards, named after his late father, Kendric Johnson, who was a dentist, has released its second Syrah bottling, the 2005 Shenandoah Valley Syrah. It is a more than respectable beginning for a young vintner. While the 05 Syrah fruit “is a touch riper than the norm for me,” says Johnson, the wine still has that bounce that Johnson goes after. It has a clean luscious nose, with deep blueberry and dark cherry notes and a hint of spice, which Johnson likens to a subtle Herbes de Provence aspect. There is a bit of charcoal note and a little ash, which is very characteristic of the region defined by iron rich and granite soils. The wine has good structure, finesse and some complexity, a promising start to a new expression of Foothills Syrah.

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Reviewed February 29, 2008 by Jean Deitz Sexton.

Other Awards & Accolades

"Best Buy" - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines (April 2008)