RICHLAND, Wash. — Twice in the past three years, Earl and Carrie Sullivan of Telaya Wine Co., turned Syrah from the Snake River Valley into the Best Red Wine at the Idaho Wine Competition.
At the 2021 Cascadia International Wine Competition, the Boise-area producers submitted a 2018 Syrah grown in Idaho that entered the sweepstakes as the best red of judging and emerged as the best of show. That news from the three-day judging in early May at the Courtyard by Marriott Columbia Point in Richland, Wash., will be an extra selling point during June — Idaho Wine Month — and beyond.

Anthony Dias
​ BLUE REVIEWS
88-89: VERY GOOD
90-94: OUTSTANDING
95-100: CLASSIC

94 Telaya Wine Co
2018 Syrah, Snake River Valley, Idaho ($34) Very dark, with a fragrant, floral nose and a fruit-driven palate. Dense, juicy, elegant, and balanced; rich and lovely. ​