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• Neecies Likes this wine: 95 points

  July 24, 2013 - 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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