2022 Keplinger Fuego y Mar Syrah Silver Eagle Vineyard Sonoma Coast 6pk 6x750ml

Keplinger Wines was founded in 2006 by winemaker Helen Keplinger and her husband DJ Warner, a project rooted in an obsession with Rhône varietals and the hillside vineyards capable of expressing them at their most profound.

Helen holds an MS in Enology from UC Davis and built her craft at some of California's most elite addresses — Paradigm Winery, Bryant Family Vineyards, and Kenzo Estate — but it was three years immersed in Spain's Priorat region, working alongside consultant Claude Gros at Cellers Melis, that crystallized her winemaking philosophy: terroir is everything, and the winemaker's role is to listen. Named Vinous Winemaker of the Year 2023 by Antonio Galloni, previously celebrated by Food & Wine Magazine in 2012, and featured on the cover of Wine Spectator in 2014, Helen is one of California's most decorated and sought-after winemaking talents. Keplinger remains a small-lot, single-vineyard operation — meticulous, minimal-intervention, and relentlessly focused on site.

The Fuego y Mar — Spanish for "Fire and Sea" — is Keplinger's signature Sonoma Coast Syrah and one of California's most compelling cool-climate expressions of the grape. It is sourced entirely from the Silver Eagle Vineyard in Occidental, owned and farmed with exceptional care by the Ulises Valdez family. The name captures the vineyard's defining duality: two contrasting soil types — ancient ocean-floor sediment and Sobrante volcanic rock — that together shape a Syrah of uncommon complexity and tension. Côte Rôtie and Hermitage Syrah clones are planted on these steep, wind-scoured volcanic hills, producing low yields of small, intensely concentrated berries. Cool maritime influence from the nearby Pacific tempera ripeness and preserves the wine's aromatic lift and precision. The resulting Syrah is floral, layered, and deeply structured — a wine critics have compared to the great expressions of Cornas and Côte Rôtie, while being thoroughly, unmistakably Sonoma Coast in character.