-Avalon Recommends

Boudreaux Cabernet Sauvignon 05 is an Avalon NW Big Reds Club selection. Wine club members receive a 15% discount on this wine.

No Washington Cab cellar is complete without the Boudreaux 05 Cab.
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1 - Maresh Vineyard Pinot noir 05 $75
3- Dundee Hills Pinot noir 06 $35 ea.
1- White Rose Vineyard Pinot noir06 $75
1 -Maresh Vin
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"Novelty Hill 2005 Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($25) is a fine-tuned Bordeaux blend, with cab franc, merlot and malbec making up 10 percent of the total. It's dark and tannic, tight and com
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Highly recommended by Avalon! Beaming, burly black plum and black berry fruit picks up leather, anise, bacon, cocoa, and black pepper moving toward the finish. Concentrated and structured, this i
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The ROCO Pinot noir 2006's deep garnet c
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Bright refreshing acidity but with a creamy tangerine flavor on the palate. Lush but balanced. A great wine for a grilled chicken salad or appetizers.

Biggio Hamina Cellars is the new wine
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Floral and rich with a honeyed apricot note on the nose and palate. Just the slightest hint of sweetness balances the fresh acidity. This wine would be excellent with
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A concentrated nose of cassis, black plum, soil, smoke, violets, and spicy herbs. The lush palate offers up beautifully dense black fruits, with attractive sweetness and awesome length. This is a
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Antica Terra Six Pack
2 - Botanica Pinot noir 06 $64.95
4 - Willamette Valley Pinot noi
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The 2006 Shea Vineyard Estate 06 Pinot noir is dark garnet in color. Upon opening the bottle, scents of blackberry and cherry are complemented by subtle hints of sweet spice and rose petal.
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Did we say Mark Ryan and Willamette Valley? Indeed. Mark loves Pinot noir, and decided to source grapes from Lachini Vineyard to produce four barrels of 2006 Pinot noir, named Black Love after th
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Boudreaux Cellars Merlot 05 is made in a less than 200 case lot, and is extremely limited.

A monster Merlot, built for Bordeaux fans. Cherry cola, new leather, plum, shade leaf tobacco, and cin
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Boudreaux Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 04 is made in very limited amounts - less than 100 cases of the 2004 vintage were made.
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Toluca Lane Pinot noir 06 was An Avalon Wine of the Week!

Lush and densely packed with big blackberry and black cherr
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92 points Wine Spectator! "Lithe in texture, with refined tannins, wrapping around a glowing core of raspberry, cherry and cinnamon flavors, drifting through the finish as if unmoored from the cris
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Wonderfully aromatic, delightfully fizzy, and deliciously sweet, Fizz? is made from Early Muscat grapes and is one of the very few wines i
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The 2006 Kyra Pinot noir is very nice for the price. The nose has sweet pie spice and cherry notes. flavors are of red and black cherry with lots of sweet toast. This is a Washington State Pinot no
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Last night I cracked into a 2006 Et Fille Palmer Creek Pinot for the first time since trying it in December. WOW, am I glad I did. It was a bit young last year, but now it's kicking ass. At $32 it
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Avalon's tasting notes:

Fragrant and spicy, with a pretty perfumed nose of lovely violets, graham and lush red fruit. Opulent, creamy red cherries and berries fill your mouth. Sweet
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Mark's newest brainchild is a dark and brooding 100% Mourvedre. Showing very tight upon opening, significant air time reveals ripe black berries and black raspberries, black pepper, orange peel,
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2005 Vintage tasting Notes: Intense aromas of creamy black cherry, bittersweet chocolate, and a hint of dried herbs. Superdense in the mouth, with flavors echoing aromas
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Sineann's Cold Creek Cabernet Sauvignon is receiving lots of press. Paul Gregutt, of the Seattle Times says: "Best of all is Sineann's 2006 Cold Creek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon ($48). Chateau S
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Avalon Notes: There's no need for a decanter. The Abeja Cabernet Sauvignon 05 shows off its big aromas of black fruit, espresso, milk chocolate, graham, and violet
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This label hearkens to the spirit of the original sharecropping ideal o
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Unforgettable. One of the most intoxicating noses of any red wine I've tried. Heady and luscious black cherry gushe
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Aromas of dark berries and black currants mingle with herb-infused mocha and eucalyptus. The tannic backbone is matched by full black plum, black currant, and black cherry flavors. Like its big b
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Mark Ryan offshoot Guardian Cellars was formed by Jerry Riener and Mark McNeilly, who work together at Mark Ryan Winery.

Avalon tasting notes: Wow! An intense nose, redolent of cedar, black
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2005 Andrew Will Sorella is Washington wine at the top of its game. Intense aromas of black and blue fruits with wiffs of vanilla-tinged woodsmoke then wait--Amarena cherry cream. Oh the dense la
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New release November 2007. Small production, highly allocated. Please call to place your request for wine.

Welcoming aromas of warm raspberries, cloves, and woodspice, with little hints of red plums. Rich red cherries lead into a burst of spice-accented red fruit. The texture is supple and attractive,
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Ripe aromas of raspberry, plum, and black cherry are nicely complimented by oak spice, cola, and minerality. Th
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The Stewart Pinot noir 2005 is Avalon's favorite of the Boedecker Cellars bottlings for two years in a row! Generous, juicy cherry and ripe raspberry flavors just keep on giving. The wine issuccul
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Big beautiful fruit on the nose with wiffs of aromatic rosemary. The wine opens up on the palette with intense red raspberry and candied red currant. Sweet baking spices and a slight hint of whit
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Substance Merlot 06 is a delicious, mouthful of Merlot of great-value WA State Merlot. Plums and dark currants move to sweeter notes of red cherries on the finish. Soft and round in texture, the
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"cool and beautifully complex nose of briar, dark berry fruit and a nuance of animale merges into barely medium weight flavors that possess impressive focus and detail on the pure and linear finish
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Full of sweet lychee, white peach and preserved lemon zest it is a complex and refreshing. Made with no oak and no malolactic fermentation the J. Christopher Chehalem is pleasantly crisp and bright
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"It offers a fragrant perfume, a plush palate, and a lighter, more elegant style than its peers. There is bracing acidity to provide uplift, excellent balance, and ample ripe, sweet fruit."