2018 DuMOL Syrah Wild Mountainside Russian River Valley

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92 points

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  2/24/2023 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I appreciate that DuMol takes great care to not manipulate the Syrah grape to ensure the varietal remains true to itself. While this cannot be confused for anything other than a new world Syrah because of the fruit concentration, it is has a very primary Hermitage like character to it. Everything is in balance and it doesn’t taste like a syrupy mess like many California Syrahs. I doubt this will evolve much more from where it is today. Drink in the next 5 years. I would decant it for 30-60 minutes to allow it to unfold.

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  7/1/2022 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Consumed this bottle in three different settings and different dates thanks to my Coravin. This is an easy drinking Russian River Syrah that is not overly complex. True to its Syrah varietal expression both in nose and finish. Well balanced and the fruit is in balance and not extracted. I would drink this in the next 5 years.

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  2/6/2022 - Harley1199 wrote:

  Also served briefly by the glass from a single-bottle brought on that same flight from Miami. It is a giant wine, really powerful at this precise moment and yet, if we leave it sleeping 5 years in the cellar, its emphatic tannins could integrate very well with the notes of ripe black fruit, roasted meat and cocoa essence on the nose. In the mouth you have to add an energetic acidity and also a deep minerality. A small find not so rare nowadays in terms of Rhone varietals but made in California at an absurd price for what it really is. Preview of another American syrah tasting coming up.
  
  Tambien servido brevemente por copas de una única botella traída en ese mismo vuelo de Miami. Es un vino gigante, potente y poderoso en estos precisos momentos y sin embargo, si lo dejamos durmiendo 5 años en la bodega, sus enfáticos taninos podrian integrarse muy bien con las notas a fruta negra madura, a la carne asada y a la esencia de cacao en nariz. En boca hay que sumarle una enérgica acidez y tambien una profunda mineralidad. Un pequeño hallazgo no tan raro hoy en dia en cuanto a varietales del Ródano pero hecho en California a un precio absurdo para lo que realmente es. Adelanto de otra cata de syrah norteamericanos que está por llegar.

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  7/23/2021 - Matt Scott Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Decanted for an hour then finished five days later...this will go the distance. Blueberries, violets, purple sage, broiled steak and rocky terrain. The finish is long, with this middle that has grip and roundness. Fibrous tannins, and full body - this waivers from decadence to refinement. Drink 2022 - 2032.

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  1/2/2021 - ashishnag Does not like this wine: 89 Points

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