The best rose I've ever had.... and you'll probably hate it

I went wine tasting a few weekends back in the Paso Robles area. One place we stopped at on the east side of 101 was Barrel 27 as they had some very nicely rated Syrahs by the WS at nice prices. I liked their wines alot, but the wine that caught my attention was their 2005 (!) Syrah Rose. It is a very big rose in that it has an edge of tar, smoke... and if pressed, I'll admit the slightest hint of burnt rubber along with slightly darker fruit flavors than I've found in any other rose.

I was tasting with friends and two of them had to spit this wine out, they disliked it so much. And this was the only wine they spit during the entire trip. My wife doesn't care for this much either. And the funny thing was this wine was $13 but if you bought a case, it was only $7 / bottle. So I thought about it long and hard for 2 minutes and prudently only bought 12 bottles.... aka a case. Talking to the servers at another winery ("where have you been?" "Barrel 27.. an this rose!"), they knew of this and thought it might have brett. Well that really sunk my boat as I had already bought the case. But you know what?

I am so glad I bought a case. Pretty much everyone on the tasting trip hated it, except for D who thought it was interesting. But I love this crazy wine. My score is 93 points. Some nights I wonder what to drink and this is at the top of my list. Warmed up a bit, it has notes of tobacco, tar, smoke, a bit of mineral and a wisp of steel all in a somewhat big rose body. I mean how can you like this? Yet I do. Holy crap.