Black black black absolutely impenetrable black and staining with flourescent purple edges.  Huge funky, remarkably Old-World nose blasts a vegetal cornucopia of chopped onion, raw asparagus, garden hose and dirty baby diaper, all the while fiercely cloaking intense candied, black cherry fruit.  A healthy mineral, mild oak, and considerably alcohol wrap up the mix.  I am fairly certain this is my first 2013 Syrah and the whole package shows so completely infantile and awkward.  In the mouth, considerably thinner and leads you to feel the heat in the nose is not from alcohol, but the now-visible effervescence.  Decanted HARD.  Sandpaper tannin claws hard from the get-go, along with fierce acidification.  A lovely fruit backbone, walnut-skin and steely–nyet: rusty-steely and tapering off into a juxtaposition between flabbiness and acridness.  This poor little thing definitely has the extraction and body, it just needs some settling down and finding its own.  Really difficult to find enjoyable at this juncture, but a TON of air reveals something which could possibly reward in–at a MINIMUM–12 to 48 months.  The flaws are equally distributed between over-extraction, *natural wine*, and a shockingly young age, but smack of cellar-issues.  13-6  ♦  only because it tastes like a barrel-sample.