CASE PRICE = $21.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
Notes from the Winemaker:The 2008 Merlot offers depth and concentration with sweet tannins all because of the vineyards: Pepper Bridge, Dwelley, Seven Hills, Killian and Spring Creek 84% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7% Cabernet Franc. The golden raisin, dried fruit nose is a "beak grabber" which takes you to the mid-palate of red licorice, lavender, cassis and Lambert cherry. The wild huckleberry, oxheart cherry finish is pure pleasure and will gain length with age. This balanced and elegant Merlot, may be one of the best of the 2008s in Washington. Sauté turkey burgers with grated zucchini and carrot, garlic, thyme and egg, to place on a bed of succotash that contains corn, lima beans, and chicken stock. Add to these ingredients sautéed chopped jalapeno pepper, large shallot, sweet red pepper, chopped celery and Italian parsley. Finish the succotash with butter, heavy cream, a dash of nutmeg, and simmer for just 30 minutes.
Ratings & Reviews
91 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine:"Supple and detailed, this delightful Merlot has more grip than most non-Washington Merlots in this price range, and the fruit, though ripe, brings with it a wild, untamed character. Cherries, golden raisins and figs fill the palate, then glide into a milk chocolate-slathered finish." — P.G. (11/1/2010)
90 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine (2007 vintage):"Smooth and dark, with spice-inflected blackberry and currant flavors that glide easily through a veil of soft tannins, echoing enticingly on the finish. Drink now through 2013. 670 cases made." –HS (Sep 30, 2010)
90 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine (2006 vintage):"The winemakers speak of “wild chokecherry jam” flavors. OK. There are interesting, wild berry flavors, along with the winery’s generous, milk chocolaty, oaked-up finish. Still young and knitting together, if this wine follows the path of earlier successes, it will begin to expand and fill out over the next five or six years." - P.G. (12/1/2008)
Seattle Magazine, June 2009:"Gold Award"
