| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2006 Cayuse Syrah Bionic FrogWalla Walla Valley more |
10/16/2015 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 100 pointsAnother perfect wine from Cayuse! Brick-garnet, with very slight lightening at the edges. Almost completely opaque. Decanted two hours. Sweet dark fruit, bacon, mushroom, leather and tobacco nose, immediate, pronounced, and complex. Very dark, almost black, fruit flavors, with dense anise, some espresso, smoky. Very distinctive. Very concentrated but not heavy...perfectly balanced with underlying tannin and acid. The aftertaste is extremely long, like black licorice. Wonderful Northern Rhone style, at its peak, but should still last for many years. |
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1990 Château d'YquemSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
4/25/2023 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 100 pointsAbsolute perfection, fully mature but no risk of declining any time soon! Deep yellow-gold. Last tasted 2016, even better now. Very aromatic, deep and rich lemon-peach aromas mixed with a light oak touch. Lots of flavor, rich and viscous, acidity still prominent but plenty of sweet fruit, and very lingering sweet aftertaste.
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2011 Cayuse Syrah En Chamberlin VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
7/23/2015 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 100 pointsAt Westerdam's Pinnacle Grill over two nights, one of them dinner by Le Cirque. This is as good as syrah (or wine, for that matter) gets! Dark garnet-purple, completely opaque, with a smoky, toasty black fruit and black pepper nose that jumps out immediately and stays strong. Blackberry and black raspberry fruit, slight anise, with French oak overtones. Viscous, mouth-coating, but in a very supple style, not heavy like some of the Aussie shiraz. Perfect balance of fruit, acidity and tannin, a great balance of richness and elegance. The aftertaste just wouldn't quit. It went perfectly with beef one night, lamb the next, didn't fade at all the second evening. I think En Chamberlin may be my favorite of Baron's syrahs, slightly edging out Armada and maybe even the Frog.
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2006 Cayuse Syrah Bionic FrogWalla Walla Valley more |
4/15/2016 - perlasteve Likes this wine: 99 pointsopened at my retirement dinner at Kevins. Hard to know what a 100 point wine would be but this comes as close as possible. Last '06 was 4 years ago and it was fantastic, a full meal deal. This bottle, after showing little funk and more fruit, opened up to middle earth and the aromas could be smelled across the room. The fullness of the earthy flavors made this '06 the ultimate full meal deal. An absolute phenomenal wine. Needs only about 30 minutes of air time and then the animals are out of the barn. I will always remember this night, it was my last '06.
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2006 Cayuse Syrah Bionic FrogWalla Walla Valley more |
10/16/2016 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 99 pointsMy tasting of 12 Christophe Baron wines. One of my favorites, along with 2009 No Girls syrah and 2010 Reynvaan Stonessence. Dark and opaque, with pronounced aromas of black cherry, black raspberry, some of the Cayuse "funk" or "barnyard" component. Full-bodied, perfectly balanced, still with some tannins, slightly hot on the aftertaste. Drink or hold several years.
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2008 Cayuse Syrah Armada VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
12/2/2017 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 98 pointsA fabulous wine at its peak, this totally opaque dark garnet-purple wine has an immediate pronounced nose: smoky roasted meat, blackberries, plums, pepper. Extremely viscous...glycerin coats the glass. Full-bodied and mouth-coating, but perfectly balanced, with just light tannin. Minimal "bite" on the late palate, but great and long aftertaste. This is typical great Cayuse syrah, nearly perfect. Drink now, but should easily hold another five or more years. The style is very much like Guigal's single vineyard wines, but even more intense, and at a fraction of the cost!
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2009 Cayuse Syrah Bionic FrogWalla Walla Valley more |
4/14/2017 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 98 pointsDark garnet-purple, completely opaque. Pronounced aroma of blackberries and cassis, roasted meats, but opened slowly. Viscous. Very concentrated on the palate, dark fruits with charred wood, smooth, but high alcohol, persists into an extremely long finish. Outstanding, but still a bit closed, may still need a couple more years in the cellar.
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2013 Cayuse Wallah Wallah Special #5Walla Walla Valley Syrah more |
11/23/2019 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 98 pointsSame note as a year ago: Opened several hours ahead, double decanted. Typical Cayuse syrah nose, with earthy, meaty, smoky notes, elegant and complex. Full bodied but not as much as some other of their syrahs like Armada. Rich flavors, lots of fruit mostly dark fruits and berries, and a very long finish. Surprisingly mature for a young vintage and from a magnum. Not a huge powerful wine but extremely enjoyable now.
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2010 Cayuse Syrah Bionic FrogWalla Walla Valley more |
6/11/2023 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 98 pointsSixth time tasting this wine and vintage since June, 2019, last bottle. There has been some variation, with my scores from 94 to 100. Still garnet and opaque, now with a slight amber edge. The aromas are pronounced right from the start. Very complex and elegant, blackberries, plums, black pepper; the charred meat and smoky wood no longer present, but unlike their other syrahs, a definite herbal component making it more interesting. Flavors are full-bodied but not as big and concentrated as Armada. Still, it's smooth and rich on the palate, perfectly balanced, with plenty of dark fruit but tannins completely resolved. This is Baron's best Cayuse syrah because of how it combines power with some elegance, has the most complexity. Just the slightest hint of bitterness on the aftertaste. This can't get any better. Time to move on to the younger vintages.
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2012 Horsepower Vineyards Syrah Sur Echalas VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
1/27/2018 - Radboy wrote: 98 pointsOpened tighter than a tick on a hound but a 3 hour decant brought things into perspective. This has polished finesse balanced with depth and character that rivals the best of the other Cayuse wines. It is a toss up on whether it is more like an Armada or an En Chamberlin between me and the missus. I think I need to drink more bottles to fully explore that thought. It opens with wafts of leather and tobacco with a slight bit of mushroom lingering in the shadows. Simply fabulous fruit with notes of umami, soy and sweet plum fruit with the deep earthy terroir of the Rocks. Polished but not a prolonged finish. The fruit seals the deal. Great wine.
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2009 Cayuse Syrah Cailloux VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
10/9/2014 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 98 pointsTasted with four 2010 Reynvaan syrahs, their 2011 cab, two 2009 No Girls, and four other Cayuse. Garnet, mostly opaque. Very pronounced dark fruit aromas, complex but still a bit brooding. Almost seems like cassis-cabernet nose. The flavors are very full-bodied and concentrated, all black fruits, with plenty of alcohol, and some tannin which stays in the background. Excellent balance, though. This was, except for Bionic Frog, the most concentrated wine of the evening. The density, concentration, acidity, and tannin carried through in the aftertaste and just kept going. Despite being five years old and very enjoyable, It's approaching the concentration of the Aussie shirazeses. Either drink it with very flavorful food, or hold it for a couple more years. Outstanding!
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2010 Cayuse Syrah En Chamberlin VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
1/26/2022 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 97 pointsPerhaps the most elegant and complex of the Cayuse syrahs, now fully mature. Dark and still opaque. The characteristic smoke and roasted meat of Cayuse are present, but also a pronounced bacon fat not as prominent the other Cayuse syrahs, very much in the style of the great Guigal single vintage wines. Concentrated flavors to match, also very Northern Rhone style, now fully mature, with tannins resolved, flavors of black cherries and blackberries. Very long aftertaste, slightly hot on the end. It stayed just as great the second night. Drink now and over the next few years.
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2009 Cayuse Syrah Armada VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
3/17/2022 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 97 pointsProbably the darkest, most concentrated and tannic of Baron's syrahs. Last tasted Sept. 2019, when it was still somewhat tannic. Completely dark and opaque but now some brown at the edge; very aromatic, typical Cayuse style of roasted meats, charred wood, pure blackberries. Full-bodied flavors to match; tannin has now completely resolved, and it's now fully mature. Very Northern Rhône style, will easily hold for five or more years.
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2018 Cayuse Syrah En Cerise VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
4/19/2022 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 97 pointsFirst of these we've tried, tasted over two nights, compared it with 2018 Liminal GSM and 2019 Liminal High Contrast Syrah. We liked the Cayuse much better than either of those. The En Cerise is dark garnet-purple, opaque, with very pronounced aromas similar to Guigal's single vineyard Cote Roties...roasted meat, bacon fat, plums, black cherries, hint of mocha, already complex. The flavors are rich, viscous, and concentrated without being a "fruit bomb". The balance is perfect, with good acidity and tannin in the background, allowing the fruit to predominate. Sweet black fruit flavors. The first night there was some bitterness when first opened, which lasted a couple of hours then blew off. There was none on the second night.
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2001 Château RieussecSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
2/2/2015 - Radboy wrote: 97 pointsWe had saved this for a hopeful Seahawk victory. Oh well, fuck it. We drank it anyways. Awesome stuff.
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2009 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/13/2015 - ledocq Likes this wine: 97 pointsFirst from a case bought at auction. Decanted and kept chilled in a tub of water for 5 hours (which is crucial). For the hell of it, I had a sip at pnp, and the nose was magificent and mysterious, with the familiar PC cedar and depth...and then more depth, sort of like realizing the mineshaft suddenly has a whole new vein you didn't know about if you had the '03 or '06 or '08. I actually had the thought "Oh my lord, I'm smelling eternity." Tasting it, however, was stupid. It was like being flung into the middle of a Jackson Pollack of confusing elements that finished with a cassis blowtorch. Five hours later, however, I was having an experience that seems pretty much like most people's from their notes: a little bit of "uh-huh" and a whole lot of "oh yeah." It kept getting better and by the 8th hour open, it was elegant yet robust, and the finish was endless, sun goes down moon comes up, oh it's still going on. And this might sound nuts, but I was starting to get notes that reminded me a bit of the '66 Haut Brion in that post-fruit, post-exuberant maturity. Not that it's anywhere near there, just that like seeing on-coming lights on the highway, you know there's something out there, approaching, eventually. This is magnificent and all that they say.
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2010 Cayuse Syrah Armada VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
11/3/2022 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 97 pointsWow, this bottle had something special going on, or maybe it was partially my state of mind or something, because this showing was exquisite. Nose sports green and black olives, bacon fat, anise, smoked meat and grilled lamb over top deep blueberries and black cherries. The palate shows integrated tannins, a delightfully chewy feel, and vibrant acidity, and this is big but balanced. Tangy black cherries, plums, currants, suave and juicy. Heavy but precise, like a tech death album but way more fun. I love the bacon fat, venison, pimento-stuffed olive, tar and graphite tones, black pepper and red pepper flakes in there as well. Earthy, gravelly, rocky notes on the finish. I've always loved this producer, and this wine, but this bottle was next level. Gorgeous stuff.
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2017 Cayuse God Only KnowsWalla Walla Valley Grenache more |
1/19/2023 - RhoneWho wrote: 97 pointsUpdated May 2023:
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Comment posted by Radboy:
10/17/2015 8:14:00 AM - Good to know Ex Ray! I have been holding my last two bottles. Might be a good one for the holidays. I had the '06 Cailloux last night and it was exquisite with lots of life left in it. Cheers. Steve