2006 | DeLille Cellars | Syrah Doyenne Grand Ciel Vineyard

Offers deep blackberry and cassis fruits, sage, thyme and earthy notes. Beautifully integrated wood adds depth and a subtle chocolate note creeps in there as well. The palate is medium to full bodied with concentrated fruit, a superb texture, solid balance and a rock star finish that builds in the mouth with fine, ripe tannin.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2006 Syrah Grand Ciel Vineyard also contains 2% Viognier. It offers greater aromatic complexity with its wild berries and herbs, leading to a packed, dense, opulent wine with a sauvage character that should please any Rhone enthusiast. This impeccably balanced, pleasure-bent Syrah will have a drinking window extending from 2011 to 2021.

• Wine Enthusiast: Firm, ripe, dense and plummy fruit is underlined with astringent tannins. Nuances of black olive, smoke and graphite are woven in. Doyenne’s 2006 wines are all quite tight, hard, and tannic; they will greatly benefit from more bottle age and generous breathing time.

Producer Information

DeLille Cellars is a prestigious Washington State wine producer, founded in 1992. With a focus on the Red Mountain AVA and other top sites in the Columbia Valley, it has been a leading player in establishing the viticultural credentials of the state. DeLille Cellars is also one of the first wineries in Washington to predominantly focus on producing both red and wines from Bordeaux varieties. DeLille was one of the first five wineries in the state to gain a 5-star rating for excellence from Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate. In recent years it has appeared four times in the annual Wines and Spirits Magazine Top 100 Wineries of the World list.
Grape are sourced from multiple estate and contracted vineyards spanning the Yakima Valley and Red Mountain AVAs: Harrison Hill, Grand Ciel, Klipsun, Boushey, Ciel du Cheval, Red Willow, Upchurch and Stillwater Creek. DeLille Cellars has held the rights to Harrison Hill vineyard since 1994, which is today part of the Snipes Mountain AVA. Snipes Mountain is known for its unique topography, high elevations and soils that differentiate it from the rest of the Yakima Valley AVA. The Harrison Hill vineyard was first planted to Cabernet Sauvignon in 1962 and features the second oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the state of Washington.

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