2004 DeLille Cellars Syrah Doyenne

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  12/21/2021 - geomack Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Wonderful flavors--dark blueberry, blackberry, light chocolate, spice, and leather. Long, even tail.

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  6/3/2019 - goodvitis.com Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The nose is just the other side of vibrant, but beautiful in its refinement and subtleties: signature Red Mountain graphite minerality, crushed cherry and strawberry, violet and crushed rock. This is a saturating medium bodied wine with integrated bright acidity and smooth and refined tannin. The structure strikes a brilliant balance between forgettable and dominant. It offers flavors of texturally-driven graphite minerals, brambly red and purple and black fruits, loads of currant, kirsch, black pepper and licorice. It’s probably two or three years past it’s prime, but it’s still damn good. DeLille really does hit another level with significant age.

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  3/5/2019 - Gary wrote:

  Still enjoyable but clearly over the hill.

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  6/9/2018 - mlawren1 wrote: 94 Points

  Cherries and plums giving way to secondary cedar and leather. Great wine.

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  3/15/2014 - Jamesgold wrote: 94 Points

  10 years old and still bright and fresh but with a nice aged mellow quality.

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