Bob McDonald

9.4

Interesting to compare this with the 1er Cru Les Perrieres from Henri Boillot from 2015 a few months ago. A touch of oak initially on the nose - caramel notes. Lemony and citric on the light weight palate, with stoney mineral notes and a noticeable saline finish. You can taste the well balanced oak on the palate. More minerality than most top notch Australian Chardonnays. — 4 years ago

Sarah Milsow-Guenther

9.3

This just keeps getting better. The Stoney Vine funk is still very present but subdued a bit. Such a lovely wine, bummer it isn’t being made any longer. — 5 years ago

Douglas Braun

9.1

2011 vintage red rim color really pretty bottle bouquet mushroom , earthy , spice , anise , spiced strawberry jam, Stoney ,still some major soft tannins (rim color between red and brick) great time to drink — 5 years ago

Lisa Gagne

9.0

Nice balanced grapefruit hints, not too overpowering — 6 years ago

Richard Brand

9.0

Black currants, green apple, unripened apricots, red cabbage, with an earthy mineral finish. Very approachable! — 7 years ago

Nancy Croisier, CSW

9.2

Great smokey nose, nice representation of Walla Walla Syrah w savory notes. — 9 years ago

Christopher Losa

Owner/Wine Director Bar Bambino

8.9

Lovely honeydew melon and fragrant jasmine. Big and unctuous with clean, stoney acid to finish. — 9 years ago

Keith Crump

8.9

Substantial — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Holy hell this is great. I mean wow. Leather galore. Gorgeous, stunning, pure. So granitic and mineral. So expansive. Cocoa. Mint. Olive. So wafting and expansive. Palate is rich, ripe and dense with stunning purity, red berry fruit, a gamey, stoney character and lots of freshness. Awesome acids. Really elegant as well. Terrific inner mouth aromas. Really complex and finishes very stoney. So so long. Will only open more. I won’t get to evolve with it as I’m dropping off at a friend’s place for him to enjoy with dinner with some friends he needs to impress. Wow, this is long! Sickness. — 5 years ago

Anne Carman

9.3

Notes of plum, blackberry, cedar, deepened on the palate with rich full polished structure and elegantly balanced tannins. Both dark and vibrant at once. — 5 years ago

Stacy Stadnik

9.1

Everything from this area is money. — 6 years ago

Al Shikoh

9.0

* appearance: dark purple
* aromas: blackberry, black olive, vanilla, cracked pepper, smoke
* palate: very dense, black fruit, black olive
* structure: full bodied, medium+ acidity, medium tannins, 14.7% ABV
* finish: long, peppery
* winemaking: 100% Syrah blended from three vineyard: Les Collines Vineyard (44%)/Lewis Vineyard (41%)/Stoney Vines Vineyard (15%), aged for 17 months in 15% new oak and 85% older oak barrels
* cost: $45 — 7 years ago

Nate Miles

9.1

Stoney stream water. — 9 years ago

Scott C

Founder / Co-director SR Wine imports

8.9

Such value ! Lemon , grapefruit , with good length — 5 years ago

Pamela Taylor

9.0

Easy drinking Sauv Blanc — 5 years ago

Mary Panos

9.4

Delicious and easy to drink red. I get notes of cola and cherry. Paired very well with Neapolitan pizza — 5 years ago

Steve Rura

9.4

Outstanding wine. On the young side, but I really savored it and geeked out 🤓

On opening:

Very restricted and obviously young. Tight, bitter, stoney aroma in the glass. Not the best time to drink it, but not bad and clearly well made. Not much alcohol showing, even at 15% abv

2+ hours:

Starts to open up with underripe raspberry fruit and herbal aromatics

3rd day:

Fully open with amazing red fruit complexity. Raspberry is still leading with dry notes of current and cranberry. Savory and white pepper, refined acidity and balance. — 6 years ago

Dr. Owen Bargreen

9.3

Sourced from the esteemed ‘Stoney Vine Vineyard’ in the Walla Walla Rocks AVA, the 2017 ‘Tall Tales’ Syrah begins with lovely stony undertones that mingle with the green olive tapenade, bacon fat, cigar ash and clove aromatics that all marvelously combine in the glass. The texture imparted is seriously good as is the flavor range from Satsuma orange zest to ripe red cherry to shades of Umami, bulls blood and sweet pipe tobacco. Delicious now, this will continue to evolve well over the next eight to ten years — but why wait? Drink 2019-2026- 93 — 6 years ago

Daniel P

9.7

I love these guys. Lush and smooth, beautifully weighted and textured. — 8 years ago

TheSkip

9.2

Well then. Still on the WA train!

If there were some magical continuum of wine, this is immediately to the left of hyper extracted Pinot Noir. I don't know that it would be accurate to call it a Pinot-lovers Syrah, but I'll go with that anyway. — 9 years ago