Review Score
91 Points
2004 Syrah: Wine Advocate
2004 Du Brul Vineyard Reserve
The wine possesses generous extract, spicy blue fruit flavors, moderate tannin, and a long, firm finish. Drink this Côte Rôtie look alike now through 2025.
91 Points
This wine is really all about chocolate, especially when first opened. A ripe black raspberry jam scent emerges from underneath, with candied plum flavors giving some buoyancy to that cocoa'd base. With time the wine becomes more ample and fresh, both juicy and mouth filling. A Syrah for barbecued ribs.
91 Points
The wine possesses generous extract, spicy blue fruit flavors, moderate tannin, and a long, firm finish. Drink this Côte Rôtie look alike now through 2025.
91 Points
It’s a big wine… soft, round texture, not overtly tannic, just simple, unadulterated lusciousness Decant and serve with Peking duck.
Top 100 wines for 2004
...chocolate-covered cherry, baked plum, anise, cinnamon, butterscotch, toast, roasted coffee and earth aromas and flavors. Nice price.
“This Syrah is loaded with jammy blackberry fruit and rich chocolate. This is a crowd pleaser.”