2022 Dossier Columbia Valley Red Blend estate spotlight
The market on this bottle
Top score is Jeb Dunnuck on this vintage, never a Wine-Searcher aggregate.
Wine-Searcher low $40.58, average $44.64. Two named critics at 94. Typical retail $60.
2022 Dossier Columbia Valley Cabernet Blend
Billo Naravane MW for Sidney Rice and Tim Lenihan. Double 94. Thirty on two or more.
Dossier launched in 2021 in Walla Walla. They hired Billo Naravane MW of Rasa Vineyards. Jeb Dunnuck 94 and James Suckling 94 on this 2022. Owen Bargreen called it a killer value at full price. Two or more are $30 a bottle. A single bottle is $60.
Two 94s. A Master of Wine. Thirty dollars on two.
Sidney Rice and Tim Lenihan founded Dossier in 2021 and hired Billo Naravane MW to build a luxury Washington brand. A good chunk of this blend comes from Ciel du Cheval. Jeb Dunnuck 94, James Suckling 94. Two or more are $30.
Founded in 2021. Sidney Rice after the NFL. Tim Lenihan back to Walla Walla, where he went to college. They hired Billo Naravane MW of Rasa and gave him carte blanche. Tasting room at 8 West Main Street. Production on West Rose Street.
The house
Billo Naravane MW. Proprietors Sidney Rice and Tim Lenihan.
The wine
Cabernet-led Bordeaux blend, Columbia Valley, 18 months, 40% new French oak. 14.8%.
The score
Jeb Dunnuck 94 and James Suckling 94 on this vintage.
The table
Roast chicken, a burger, a Saturday steak.
94 points, Jeb Dunnuck
Named critics only. No shop names. No aggregate score in the corner.
Cassis, cacao, then graphite.
Cassis, cigar tobacco, loamy soil, pencil shavings, black truffle. Medium to full-bodied, layered, suave tannins, a long delineated finish. Dunnuck's window is 2025 to 2033. Suckling says better from 2027. It drinks now with air.
18 months in 40% new French oak. 14.8% alcohol.
Spiced red plum, cassis, black cherry, cacao nib. Blackberries, coriander, graphite, chili, chocolate, walnuts. Soft, supple, full-bodied, precise.
Cassis, cigar tobacco, loamy soil, pencil shavings, black truffle. Medium to full-bodied, layered, suave tannins, a long delineated finish. Dunnuck's window is 2025 to 2033. Suckling says better from 2027. It drinks now with air.
Serve near 62 F for reds, colder for whites. A short decant if the note asks for air.
Billo Naravane MW
Jeb Dunnuck's blend lock: 59 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 26 percent Merlot, 10 percent Malbec, a handful of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Eighteen months, 40 percent new French oak. 14.8 percent alcohol. Billo Naravane MW.
2022 Dossier Columbia Valley Red Blend
Dossier Wine Collective is a Walla Walla brand founded in 2021. The winemaker is Billo Naravane MW. This 2022 red blend is the bottle, labeled Red Blend 2022.
A new generation of Washington luxury wine, built from the ground up, with Ciel du Cheval in the blend.
What to put on the table
Food only. No bottles on the plate.
Reds near 62 F in a proper glass. Whites colder. A 20 to 40 minute decant when the tannins ask for it.
Gordon Ramsay cooks roast chicken. A cooking video for the pairing, not a winery film.
Herb roast chicken
A Bordelais-styled blend that does not need a ribeye to show.
View Recipe for Herb roast chicken (opens in a new tab)
Dark chocolate tart
Cacao nib is already in Dunnuck's note.
View Recipe for Chocolate tart (opens in a new tab)Jeb Dunnuck 94. James Suckling 94. $30 when you take two.
Billo Naravane MW for Sidney Rice and Tim Lenihan. Double 94. Thirty on two or more.
Two or more are $30 each. A single bottle is $60. Twelve bottles ship free.
