Garagiste Syrah

Date: 24 and 25 April, 2012
What: 2010 Garagiste Syrah, Heathcote
Purchased: Blackhearts & Sparrows, $46
Food: Chicken and leek pie (24/4), lamb and salad (25/4)
Comments: errrrmmm. Ok. Great colour - vibrant deep ruby.  A tasting in two parts. 
First night: what is this?  Little on the nose.  Perhaps some spice, and a bit of forest floor.  Weird melange of forest fruits and cloves, but nothing really consistent and more to the point, nothing particularly meaningful to taste.  Very tannic and had the cheeks being sucked well in.
Second night: has opened up, with spices coming a bit more to the fore, but still somewhat thin.  A touch flinty on the nose along with the spice.
So, what to make of it?  Would not pick it as Heathcote in a million years.  The first thing that popped into my head was an obscure arthouse movie.  You know the type - a black and white effort filmed on location in Albania by an "acclaimed" Estonian director, which tells the tale of a widowed goat herder and his struggles against globalism.  Why anyone would watch it over the many other films floating around is anyone's guess.  No doubt, a select few pseudo intellectuals will find my views that of a boorish fool who doesn't know a classic when he tastes one.  But what exactly have I tasted?  I am more sympathetic on the second night but this is not something to be trotted out in anything other than the most select of wine wank types.