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Herdade do Esporão Colheita Tinto 2017

Esporão Colheita Tinto 2017

A delightful blend that features Aragonez, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Touriga Franca, Esporão 2017 Colheita Tinto is made from organically-grown grapes from the winery’s estate. Pigéage is accomplished in large concrete vats. Plums, black cherries, and vanilla round out the nose. It’s quite dry on the palate, with structured, chewy tannins. Minerality resonates against a backdrop […]

Storypoint Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Storypoint Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Petit Syrah, 6% Cabernet Franc, and 2% that’s listed as “other varieties,” the 2017 Storypoint is an excellent value for lovers of California Cabernet. The nose offers up an expressive bouquet of macerated blackberry, plum, vanilla, and a lifted note of tar and dried mint. It’s full-bodied with […]

Boutinot Les Six Côtes du Rhône Villages Cairanne 2016

Boutinot Les Six Côtes du Rhône Villages Cairanne 2016

Grown in ‘agrilo-calcaire’ or chalky clay, Boutinot’s 2016 Les Six Cairanne is composed of 50% Grenache, and 10% each of Syrah, Mourvedre, Counoise, and Cinsault—it exhibits black raspberry, black cherry, Damson plum dried herbs, incense, and spice on the nose. There is too a lovely resinous piney note that reemerges on the finish. In the […]

Columbia Winery Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Columbia Winery Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Deftly balanced, the 2016 Columbia Winery Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of 70% Horse Heaven Hills fruit with the balance coming from the Wahluke Slope AVA. This bottling is an excellent representation of tapicity for the varietal—the expression is classic Washington State Cabernet—it’s packed full of ripe blackberries, black currants, violets, mountain herbs, and dried […]

Castello di Monsanto Monrosso Toscana IGT 2016

Castello di Monsanto Monrosso Toscana IGT 2016

Like breathing in the Italian countryside in mid-summer—the 2016 Monrosso Tuscan Red Blend IGT displays dusty earth, leather, dried mushroom, and mountain herbs. Composed of 60% Syrah, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, and 3% Sangiovese, the fruit notes seem rather secondary here, and emerge more on the palate than the nose—a melange of black cherry […]

Château Peybrun Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux 2015

Château Peybrun Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux

A blend of 80% Merlot, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 3% Cabernet Franc. The 2015 vintage of Château Peybrun is generously framed in aromas of black cherries, black currants, aged leather, forest floor, menthol, and violets. It shows a degree of concentration on the palate without heaviness, with polished tannins that subside into a mineral and […]

Kin & Cascadia Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2017

Kin & Cascadia Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2017

Tortoise Creek and The Charmel, a charming, well-preserved range of sustainably farmed varietal wines that bridges two continents, with offerings from the Languedoc region and California. Translucent ruby ​​in the glass, the 2017 Kin & Cascadia Willamette Valley Pinot Noir offers a bouquet of Rainier cherries, strawberries, vanilla, and baking spice. Medium bodied and silky […]

Kin & Cascadia Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Kin & Cascadia Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Kin & Cascadia’s 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon is crafted from fruit sourced from the Wahluke Slope—a region that resembles an inland sandy beach, the Columbia River curls around this arid AVA. It is, for the most part, a massive alluvial fan. Sandy soils give rise to Cabernets with silky tannins, bright red berries, and savory tones—which […]

Boutinot Les Côteaux Côtes du Rhône Villages 2015

Boutinot Les Côteaux Côtes du Rhône Villages 2015

Boutinot’s 2015 Les Côteaux Côtes du Rhône Villages is a cuvée of 80% Grenache and 20% Syrah assembled from cru parcels in Sablet, Séguret, and Cairanne. The nose ripples with baritone, atramentous aromas of black cherry, blackberry, black olives, saddle leather, pain grille, savory herbs, and lilacs. Medium-bodied on the palate with well-integrated tannins—menthol, Tellicherry […]

Hōm Merlot by Robert Eden 2018

Hōm Merlot by Robert Eden 2018

Vibrant purple on the meniscus, Hōm Merlot is part of a new collection from acclaimed biodynamic winemaker, Robert Eden of Château Maris. It’s a fresh and vivid Merlot, with aromas of blueberry crumble, black cherries, lilacs, spice, and cinnamon bark. The wines are vinified in the first cellar made from hemp that passively consumes carbon […]

CHRISTINE HAVENS
McMinnville, OR

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