Owen Roe Dubrul Cabernet Sauvignon 05 - Wine Spectator 95 points: "Rich, ripe, supple and distinctive for the green olive and savory, tarry notes swirling around the generous core of black cherry, black currant, and licorice flavors. A big wine that caresses. Drink now through 2017. - H.S."
A colossal Cab! Creamy aromas of black cherry, cassis, graphite, and signature Owen Roe barrel toast. Beautifully plush and juicy black cherry, black currant, and black plum flavors are at once hefty and svelte, providing a silk suit coat to the integrated tannins. Loads of sweet fruit--with a blueberry note coming out-- mingles with a sappy, dark caramel spice note on the powerful finish.
The Owen Roe Dubrul Cab deserves a spot on the Northwest's mantle for best Cabernets.
Shipping late November 2007.
Not currently available to order.
May be out of stock or sold out. Inquire at 541-752-7418 or store@avalonwine.com
Detailed Info, Previous Vintage Notes, Reviews:
Tasting Notes 2004 Vintage Wine Spectator 93 points - An Avalon Big Reds
Club Selection shipped December 2006
Wine Spectator 94 points for previous vintage.
Hugh and Kathy Shields own the DuBrul Vineyard, located in northwest Yakima Valley on a small outcropping in the Rattlesnake Hills. The vineyard sits at around 1375 feet, several hundred feet above the Yakima River Valley floor. This fascinating area was carved out by cataclysmic flooding from glacial Lake Missoula. There are
areas with lunar-like exposed basalt rock and rock deposits with imbedded shells from the lake bottom mixed
with sedimentary soils and volcanic ash.
The vineyard ripens its fruit with high sugars and flavors. Unlike warmer areas in Washington, it also retains marvelous acidity, a harbinger of age worthiness.
The wines Owen Roe makes from the Dubrul Vineyard are the winery's most precious and are powerful, super-intense, and should age well into the next decade.
Tasting Notes 2003 Vintage
Wine Spectator rating 94 points (6-30-06). Try Owen
Roe's Yakima Red 04 $37.76/$41.95 if you liked this Dubrul
Cab. The Yakima is a blend of Cabernet, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot from
the Dubrul, Slide Mountain, and Rosa Mystica Vineyards. It's one of ourMay
Big Reds Club selections.
The 2003 Dubrul Cabernet Sauvignon was a Selection of Avalon's
Big Reds Club. As was the Owen Roe Cabernet Franc Rosa Mystica Block
04 (Wine Spectator 91 points). Over the years we've sent many vintages
of Owen Roe's best wines to the club, as well as offering the most comprehensive
selection of their wines available on the web.
The Dubrul Cab is Owen Roe's most sought after wine and one of Oregon's most highly coveted bottlings. About 600 cases made from a small vineyard high up on the north side of the Yakima Valley where extreme heat and cold stress the grapes and produce small amounts of intensely concentrated fruit.
Here's what Harvey Steiman of Wine Spectator says about the Owen Roe Merlot (one of David O'Reilly's high end wines:
"Few winemakers in the Pacific Northwest get such intensity and heady richness into their wines as does David O'Reilly. He consults with a number of Oregon's avant-garde wineries, including Abacela, Carabella and Starr, and he makes his own Pacific Northwest wines under three different labels: O'Reilly (for n?gociant wines), Sineann (a partnership with Peter Rossbeck) and Owen Roe, for tiny lots of intense wine."
