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DeLille Doyenne Signature Syrah 2009

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Winery: DeLille Cellars

DeLille Doyenne Signature Syrah 2009 is made from 97.5% Syrah and 2.5% Viognier

DeLille Doyenne Signature Syrah 2009:  Vineyard Breakdown:
66% Grand Ciel Vineyard Syrah
31.5% Boushey Vineyard Syrah
2.5% Ciel du Cheval Viognier

Exhibiting the most amazing purple-black tar color announces the density of this wine. The nose follows with orange blossom and orange chocolate aromas from the addition of 2½% Viognier during fermentation. These floral components are wrapped around a round core of black raspberries, marion berries, fennel and plums. This wine is plush, delicious and sensuous showing notes of kirsch liquor, white pepper, marrow and earth tones.

 

Originating in Grand Ciel and Boushey vineyards and co-fermented with a dollop of Viognier from Ciel du Cheval, the 2009 Doyenne Signature Syrah delivers complex scents of black tea, violet, cherry, raspberry, lavender, and grilled red meats, a cast which reappears in a delightfully rich, polished palate performance that utterly belies the wine’s 15% alcohol. (Asked if he watered the must even to achieve that, Upchurch replied, “If I was going to water, believe me I wouldn’t stop at 15%!”) The carnality as well as a subtle salinity serves for strong saliva inducement in a handsomely long and interactive finish. I suspect that this will be worth following for the better part of a decade. -91 Point Robert Parker, Dec 2012

Country: United States
Region: Washington
Winery: DeLille Cellars
Grape Type: Syrah
Vintage: 2009
Bottle Size: 750ml
Organic: NO

The DeLille Cellars Estate

Founded in 1992, DeLille Cellars is a small family owned winery located in Woodinville, Washington. Their goal is to make the very best handcrafted, old-world style red and white wine made in the State of Washington.

The DeLille Cellars Vineyard

The beautiful ten-acre site sits above the Woodinville valley floor, overlooking the wineries of Chateau Ste. Michelle and Columbia Winery. All DeLille wines are elaborated with the highest “hand-crafted” standards. Only grapes from the oldest and best vineyards in Washington State are used. They are hand picked and hand sorted at crush, using only the finest berry clusters. The wines are aged in 100% new French oak barrels each and every year and are never filtered.

The DeLille Cellars Wines

In the words of David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate, December 2012:

"Winemaker-vineyard manager and self-styled "old world traditionalist" Chris Upchurch has been the guiding spirit of DeLille Cellars since its early-’90s inception, although the ostensibly Old World models followed have evolved significantly in both marketing and winemaking terms. Early-on, DeLille, unsurprisingly, – like so many other U.S. wineries – focused exclusively on a Bordelais vision. That said, Upchurch and his partners had been in business for nearly a decade before they purchased a vineyard: Grand Ciel, adjacent to Ciel du Cheval and Galitzine and managed by the accomplished and (seemingly in Red Mountain at least) ubiquitous Ryan Johnson. DeLille also vinifies and bottles separately the fruit of Harrison Hill’s antique vines (for more about which see my tasting note on the 2009 vintage) and a second estate vineyard project is afoot. The established if misleading name Chaleur Estate was retained for DeLille’s flagship wine crafted from contract fruit (second wine: D2); while the designation Doyenne – utilized from early-on for Syrah – morphed into an officially separate winery for experimental-minded exploration of themes inspired by Southern France. (For database purposes, we at The Wine Advocate / eRobertParker.com treat Doyenne as part of the relevant wines’ descriptions and a DeLille sub-label, which reflects the way those wines are marketed and the spirit in which they were presented to me. Comments on Upchurch’s vinificatory approaches can be found sprinkled though my tasting notes.)"

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