Winery - OS Winery
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
OS consistently makes one of the best Cab Francs in the state—for me it is always their best wine. Here again the flavors are a powerful mix of ripe berries, cherries, strawberry jam and streaks of coffee and tobacco. Firm and confident, drinks well right now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This excellent red is 75% Cabernet Franc, blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. O•S generally produces one of the best Francs in Washington, lifted and intense, occasionally a bit high-toned, but always packed with juicy red fruits and barrel highlights of coffee and tobacco.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Not many winemakers attempt a 100% varietal Petit Verdot; the grape is inky, tannic and unyielding, and the finish can be tongue-tyingly scrapey. But OS does well by it, putting together a steakhouse wine that promises to cut through the fattest, juiciest cut of beef you can toss at it. It’s got the fruit too—blue plum, cassis, boysenberry—along with a dash of black pepper. The finish is all black coffee and bourbon.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tart and chocolaty, this red blend is smoky, earthy and substantial. It carries the winery’s characteristic roasted coffee and bitter chocolate flavors through the big, tannic finish. It’s a good, all-purpose red, with firm fruit and even firmer tannins holding up the back end.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
An interesting tangle of flavors—silky smooth chocolate and bright citrus, wrapped around cool-climate Syrah fruit. There is a lovely floral element in the nose, and the bright berry core is smoothly melded into lightly toasted, chocolaty barrel flavors.
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OS Winery Syrah - 2004
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
I believe this is the first time that a Champoux Riesling has been vineyard designated, by this winery or any other. It’s well deserved; this is a succulent, lush bottle of lemon-drop flavors. The 3% residual sugar is snapped up easily by the juicy acids; chunky and loaded with flavor, this is old-school Washington Riesling at its finest.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a gem—40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 30% Cab Franc. Dense, fruity and salty, it also carries concentrated chocolate and coffee flavors, surrounding very rich cassis and black cherry fruits. A superb value.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
OS (formerly Owen-Sullivan) has hit a home run with the 2003 Ulysses, a voluptuous red that is 60% Cabernet Franc, 30% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Extracted and volatile, it’s not a bashful wine, but it has many layers of nuanced flavors that expand in the glass, filling the nose with dried herbs, mineral, leaf, coffee and scorched earth.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This Bordeaux blend is three-quarters Cab Franc, the rest Cab Sauvignon and Merlot. It shows some volatility along with berry, tobacco and espresso scents in the nose. Light fruit flavors of berries, strawberries and melon can be found; finishing with somewhat rough-and-tumble tannins.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This high-toned wine is packed with supple, juicy fruit, big and round and ripe. It’s almost half Lemberger, Washington’s answer to Zinfandel, and it has been vinified in neutral oak for full fruit impact. The vineyard sources—Klipsun, Champoux and Sheridan—are exceptional for a “mutt” wine.
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