2002 Dunham Cellars Syrah Frenchtown Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 95 points

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  1/8/2022 - jt wrote:

  If tasted blind, no one, and I mean no one. would have thought this a 20 year old wine. Mature, and if this is not still at its peak, it must have been a tremendous wine at peak. No, this has to still be at its peak. No sediment at all. Long, viscous legs. Dark and opaque. Red fruits, herbs, smoky and meaty. A delicious syrah. Different from most WA syrahs, more Rhone than WA. Surprising in the best way.

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  7/24/2013 - Neecies Likes this wine: 95 Points

  One of the best WA syrahs I've had. The Frenchtown vineyard produces very Cote Rotie-like syrah; Dunham recognizes this and bottles it separately from the blacker, plusher Lewish fruit. This bottle demonstrates why that's such a good idea: bright raspberry-centered fruit with tangy herbs and spice in the foreground, with minor notes of bacon, fennel and toast. Feminine and refined; more similar to Chapoutier's Les Becasses than any Washington syrah I've had. At 11 years it's in peak form. I'm crushed that I don't have another bottle, but look forward to my 05's drinking this well in three years.

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