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97 Jeb Dunnuck -
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The 2017 Syrah DuMOL Estate Vineyard is sensational and will give a top Hermitage a run for its money. Incorporating 6% Viognier and aged 16 months in 30% new oak (20% in amphora), it’s loaded with notions of blue fruits, iron, ground pepper, and tons of obvious minerality. It’s deep, medium to full-bodied, has building structure, and a great finish. This brilliant bottle of wine is going to keep for another 15 years or more.
94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
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The 2017 Syrah Estate Vineyard was co-fermented with 6% Viognier. It was made with 33% whole cluster and aged 16 months in 30% new Ermitage hogsheads and 20% amphorae. Deep ruby-purple, it has a very pretty nose of gravel dust, violets, coffee bean and bitter chocolate with warm black cherries, blackcurrant, potting soil, blueberry and boysenberry plus notes of fried savory herbs. Full-bodied and very intensely flavored with gobs of warm chocolate nuance, it has a firm frame of very ripe, pixelated tannins and great freshness, with a very long, evolving finish. 220 cases produced.
93 Wine Spectator -
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Brooding yet dynamic, with refined blueberry, rose petal, licorice and smoked pepper flavors that gather richness and polish toward fine-grained tannins. Best from 2021 through 2030. 220 cases made.
92 Vinous -
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DuMol's 2017 Syrah Estate Vineyard is dense, powerful and super-concentrated. Small berries with thick skins and relatively little juice yield a Syrah with serious intensity and richness, but perhaps a bit less in the way of nuance. Perhaps that will develop in bottle. For now, the Estate is a rather brutish wine.
Technical Details
- Blend94% Syrah and 6% Viognier
- WinemakerAndy Smith
- CountryUS
- RegionCalifornia North Coast
- AppellationRussian River Valley
- VineyardDumol GVR Estate
- Aging/CooperageAGED 16 MONTHS IN 30% NEW FRENCH OAK HOGSHEADS FROM TONNELLERIE ERMITAGE & A TUSCAN CLAY AMPHORA.
- Alcohol14.3%
- Production220 Cases cases
DuMOL Syrah Estate Sonoma Coast 2017
Syrah Blends | US
JD97, WA94, WS93, VN92
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About the Producer
Founded in 1996 as a family winery, DuMOL is a latter-day pioneer in the Russian River Valley. Their winemaker and viticulturist, Andy Smith, explored and farmed this region for nearly a decade with Larkmead, Littorai and Paul Hobbs before joining DuMOL in 1999. DuMOL is a "vineyard up" winery with a fully integrated approach to winegrowing and winemaking. For more than two decades, they have planted and farmed their Estate vineyards and many of California's most renowned vineyards. They farm alongside our partner growers, from pruning through to harvest, and are committed to sustaining this region where we work and live.