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A delicate perfume with ripe, unctuous blue and black fruit. This Malbec will improve over the next three to five years and pair wonderfully with grilled pork ribs marinated in chipotle-mushroom aioli.
Malbec has proven to be an ideal varie...
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A tiny winery here in Corvallis makes an unusual varietal, and does a super job at a super price. The fruit is from one of the few plantings of Carmenere in the Northwest, at Phinney Hill Vineyard in Washington State.
On the nose ripe bl...
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First, a hit of sweet, perfumed black cherry Syrah. Next, the big, dark, meaty notes of Malbec - leather, earth, tar, dried black currant. Cabernet Sauvignon adds earth, truffle, dark chocolate, and polish. From Buty's own Phinny Hill Vineyard. ...
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Cowhorn’s 2009 rosé offers classic Provençal qualities (Grenache grapes, salmon color, strawberry flavors and low alcohol) with an engaging local personality. The strawberries marry with red delicious apples and pink grapefruit and there are h...
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A bronze medal winner from the Astoria Wine and Seafood Festival 2011!
Only 80 cases made.
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Very limited special bottling of Washington red wine made for Gonzaga University by Walla Walla's Dunham Cellars.
Made by Eric Dunham, one of Washington's top winemakers, it's a blend of 57% Cabernet, 23$ Merlot, 10% Syrah, 6% Cabernet F...
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The beautiful floral nose is laced with hints of spice. Bright berry flavors and vanilla oak comes through clearly in this finely textured wine. Well balanced with a finish that lingers. - the winery
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Positively glass-coating and inky. Black berry, violet, iodine, meat, black pepper and little oak make for an engaging nose. The velvety palate has great acidity to lift the massive black fruit. Shadings of black pepper and earth round out the f...
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Wow! This is a fine example of Merlot. The Champoux vineyard produces grapes that consistently produce the best wines. The 2010 Merlot is dark and supple, complex and powerful, even voluptuous.
2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
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Strawberry and spice, rubbed sage and lavender. Damson plum and cherry nose, aromas of incense, cocoa bean, and brambles. Ripe and chewy, medium bodied.
2007 Vintage Tasting Notes
Strawberry spice, a slurpable, soft ...
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This New World-styled Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend offers intense aromas of tobacco leaf and blackberry on the nose, with hints of rose petal and green peppercorn. The wine is dry, but with a creamy texture, and is soft and intense and packed...
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This wine has a meaty, smoky richness. It is the winery's single most popular bottling.
Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
Juicy, spicy, dense, and rich, with big black cherry flavors, and that characteristic hint of penci...
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Inky black wine with an inviting nose of blackberry jam, cinnamon sticks and clove. On the palate there are blueberry flavors and a bold spiciness. It finishes with good tannic structure, length and a pleasant peppery note.
Silky, with blac...
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LMS, the acronym for Last Man Standing, is a dark purple wine with intense flavors. A great wine to pair with red meats.
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Wine Spectator 90 points
Flavors include rose petals, hints of cumin and nutmeg, pomegranate and sour cherry.
Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2006 Vintage Tasting Notes
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Delicate scents of candied cherries, cassis, candied red currant, and a distinct sense of rose petals mingle with toasty barrel spice in the nose. Flavors are of sweet black cherries, cassis, lots of toasty cocoa bean, and the wine finishes with...
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The single most important prerequisite of our Reserve wines is vineyard provenance. This mandate so guides our winemaking philosophy that prior to the 2005 vintage we have produced only two Reserve wines.
In 2005 we detected the required benchm...
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A December Avalon Wine Club selection -
15% savings for Club Members
Wow- I've followed this winery for a few years as their new vineyard matured. With this wine, the maturity of the vineyard and the experience of ...
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Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2007 Vintage Tasting Notes
The Spellbound Syrah/Tempranillo 07 has the classic characteristics of Washington Syrah - fleshy, black cherry, spicy toast, rounded and soft...
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 93 points
The new releases begin with the 2008 Tempranillo Inigo Montoya (with 5% Grenache and 5% Mourvedre in the blend). It spent 15 months in 2nd ...
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The Southern Cascades of Oregon's Rogue Valley is the source for this wine's grapes. Pheasant Hill Vineyard is one of the new sources of the grape that is sometimes touted as the Northwest wine scene's Next Big Thing.
The Ransom Grenache ...
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A dry Rose with flavors of rhubarb, strawberry and nectarine. Delicious with a meal or delightful all by itself....
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Grochau Tino Tempranillo/Syrah 08 -
Grochau Cellars' Syrah is a hearty, rich, meaty wine, full of blackberry and black raspberry. John's Syrah is Northern Rhone in style, showing excellent balance not always found in Pacific Northwest Syrah...
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Southern Oregon has just the right climate to grow the Tempranillo varietal....
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Aromas of smokey black cherries with savory herbs and hints of vanilla and rose petal. Flavors of ripe fruit, sweet spice and a smooth finish....
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