Community Tasting Notes 76

• andtheodor wrote:

  January 31, 2024 - Served blind. Blackberry confiture, cassoulet, with a heady eucalyptus note. Palate is dense, cooked blackberry, verging on syrupy, with alcohol evident. One taster confidently called it Aussie Shiraz which is damning here. This is almost not wine at all given how savoury it is, my wife (who knows nothing about Cayuse etc.) called it revolting and absolutely refused to drink it. I thought it was interesting but found the old Faury Cote Rotie more appealing, especially with dinner.

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• gbbwino wrote: 90 points

  February 14, 2023 - My 5th out of 6 direct from the winery. Cellared since & decanted upon opening. Unfortunately there was a smokey reductive component that overwhelmed this bottle. Hope my last is like my prior bottles!

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• jsebiri wrote:

  December 19, 2022 - Standard reaction to this wine , some really liked it and others thought it was weird. I thought it was unique as usual.

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• RJWallis Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 28, 2022 - A more elegant wine than the '03 which we drank the night before. Slight floral notes on the nose, missing the typical Cayuse funk. Drinking beautifully after a two hour decant.

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• Cailles wrote: 95 points

  October 15, 2021 - No notes taken. This again had everything you expect from the Frog: very high complexity, ever changing aroma profile, the strong black olive notes and a fine structural frame. With 16 years of age, this has shed most of its baby fat and is no longer an overly broad and intense monster. For a higher score it would have needed a clearly higher precision and a tad more length. Still, definitely an amazing wine.
  
  Decanting: PnP and then decanted and followed over an hour+. Didn‘t need much air. It‘s great to follow the wine through the different stages.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Cayuse
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Bionic Frog
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Walla Walla Valley
• UPC Code 855152001760

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 9 (1%)
• In Cellars 355 (43%)
• Consumed 462 (56%)

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