Review Score
91 Points
2004 Syrah: Wine Advocate
2004 Du Brul Vineyard Reserve
The wine possesses generous extract, spicy blue fruit flavors, moderate tannin, and a long, firm finish. Drink this Côte Rôtie look alike now through 2025.
2004 Syrah: Wine & Spirits, November 2007
Review Score
91 Points
2004 Syrah
This wine is really all about chocolate, especially when first opened. A ripe black raspberry jam scent emerges from underneath, with candied plum flavors giving some buoyancy to that cocoa'd base. With time the wine becomes more ample and fresh, both juicy and mouth filling. A Syrah for barbecued ribs.
Review Score
91 Points
Wine & Spirits, February 2005
2002 Columbia Valley Syrah
It’s a big wine… soft, round texture, not overtly tannic, just simple, unadulterated lusciousness Decant and serve with Peking duck.
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Top 100 wines for 2004
San Francisco Chronicle, December 05, 2004
2002 Columbia Valley Syrah
...chocolate-covered cherry, baked plum, anise, cinnamon, butterscotch, toast, roasted coffee and earth aromas and flavors. Nice price.
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The Spokesman-Review, March 31, 2004
2001 Columbia Valley Syrah
“This Syrah is loaded with jammy blackberry fruit and rich chocolate. This is a crowd pleaser.”