Winery - Alexandria Nicole
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A good, hearty, substantial Lemberger, brimming with plush boysenberry fruit dotted with black pepper. It’s broadly tannic, certainly one of the best Lems in Washington.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Another nicely made Viognier for this up-and-coming winery, the third in a row. Vivid acids define lemon drop fruit flavors. It’s a clean, juicy style, with lip-smacking tartness and excellent focus in the midpalate. The finish is long and concentrated, with immaculately pure tasting fruit, and no alcoholic heat or excessive bitterness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is an estate-grown, stainless-steel fermented, perfectly varietal expression of Sauvignon Blanc. It’s not trying to be Chardonnay, happily; rather it shows the pleasantly grassy side of the grape, with light melon and green apple fruit flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Supple, dark, and laced with licorice, cassis, and clove, this well-crafted Bordeaux blend does not scream high alcohol, though it tops 14.6%. What keeps it focused and precise are the vivid acids and sculpted tannins. It’s the work of a young winemaker who is improving dramatically with each new vintage, even as his vineyard puts out better and better fruit.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Scents of licorice, coffee and tobacco move into concentrated blueberry and cassis fruit flavors that wrap into a tannic, chewy midpalate. The fruit here is outstanding, and the wine delivers excellent, clean, concentrated flavors at this price point. An outstanding value.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A fragrant, rich mix of olive, smoke, earth, black cherry, cassis and more. It offers fine value, good texture, grip and a very appealing, silky-smooth evolution in the finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This opens with a fertile, fecund nose mixing together layered scents of forest floor, dried leaf, moist loam, ripe plum and sandalwood. A good, sharp acid base puts a frame around the complex mix of flavors. It finishes tart and still tight; give it some breathing time.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Mixed tart and racy fruit flavors of blueberry and plum, pie cherry and more are softly coddled with spicy, chocolaty oak. This is the best wine Alexandria Nicole has yet produced, and should pave the way for more Washington-made Bordeaux blends to emulate this fruit-driven, well-balanced style.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Fascinating; this was co-fermented with 7% whole cluster Roussanne, then blended with another 4% Viognier. Inky, vivid, saturated and loaded with appealing scents of meat, smoke, cedar, pencil shavings, blackberry, black cherry and much more, this is Washington’s answer to Barossa Shiraz. Yet the alcohol remains a sensible 14.3%, and the wine has impeccable balance.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The estate’s top Bordeaux blend, it’s full-bodied and inviting, a vibrant bowl-full of red and black fruits, laced with baking spices. A worthy follow-up to the winery’s outstanding 2004, this fruit-driven, well-balanced and flat-out bodacious style of winemaking should have enormous consumer appeal. Can it improve in the cellar? Give it five years to find out.
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