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• 3daywinereview.com wrote: 94 points

  December 19, 2022 - Day 1: This is very nice. Vibrant wine and has held up well over the years. Minerals, dust, spice, mild honey, apricot, white flowers and chalk. A wonderful effort and another great Davenport wine! 92 points
  Day 2: Even better. This has plenty of life left. Apricots, honey, dust, minerals, floral, pear, white flowers and spice. Complex and medium plus finish. Nice acidity. A well-made effort indeed. 93 points
  Day 3: Wow again. Just a beautiful wine and probably the best white I have tasted from Washington. Chalk, minerals, spice, tropical fruit, honey suckles, apricot, stone, white flowers and crushed rock. This is super complex and even longer finish on day 3. I thought this would be toast but just made it into my top wines of the year under $30 category. 94 points
  Recommendation: You can cellar this another 5 plus years.

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• Fugu Me Likes this wine:

  January 9, 2022 - Consumed over 1+ weeks, with the last glass being the best. Really zippy acidity begs for food. Successfully paired with Indian, Mexican and Thai. Lots going on with this wine, with citrus and grilled pineapple, with other notes intermingled. Would be fascinating to follow this over the years that this has ahead of it. Thank you, Slye, for generously sharing a bottle from your stash!

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• Ron Slye wrote: 96 points

  January 22, 2021 - This is definitely my favorite white wine at the moment. Days after opening it still has strong notes of tropical fruits, lanolin, and just a lovely weight. Really extraordinary. I have to resist drinking these early but that is proving to be very hard!

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• jmcmchi Likes this wine:

  August 15, 2020 - Over a couple of days.
  
  Acidity is coiled within smokey lemon fruit. Has that semillon stoniness that will last for years. Will have to try beside a Hunter semillon

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• Ron Slye wrote: 96 points

  June 20, 2020 - So I really think this is the best, most intriguing, white wine I have had. Forget the qpr, which makes this ridiculous This is very tight and collected. Lots of stone, tart citrus, and lanolin on the nose and palate. Bracing acidity -- and a finish that just goes on forever. This is amazing young. Very curious to see how it is in 10, 20, or more years.

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• Vintage 2016
• Type White
• Producer Davenport Cellars
• Varietal Sémillon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Dionysus Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Columbia Valley

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• In Cellars 21 (39%)
• Consumed 33 (61%)

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