Winery - Otis Kenyon
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Amazing stuff—dense, rich, full-bodied and loaded with dark fruits, smoke, toasted walnuts, coffee grounds and appropriate notes of bark and soil. Persistent, with a strong spine and a long finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The aging in 40% American oak shows in a somewhat pickley note; this still seems to be a bit disjointed, although it’s been in bottle almost a full year. It’s 100% Cabernet Sauvignon; along with clear varietal character, there are overly strong flavors of bark and herb, and the finish is austere and a little chewy.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Lovely purple fruits, with clean flavors of cranberry, raspberry and wild cherry, and an underpinning suggesting metal filings. It’s in perfect balance, and offers the extra pleasures of light floral aromas also; more elegant style than the winery’s 2005, but with good lingering, persistent flavors.
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Otis Kenyon Syrah - 2006
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The naturally peppery spice of the Carmenère has been blended down. The result is a wine loaded with blackberry and black cherry fruit, and still plenty of pepper. It’s got a full and fruity midpalate, but it doesn’t fade; it lengthens and leaves a detailed impression of leaf and herb and spice and fruit.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Clean and varietal, with pretty blackberry and cherry fruit, and a sweet plum note that comes in behind. It’s resonant and fruity, with spice and a firm, tensile structure that gives it definition—all in all, a lovely bottle.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rapidly maturing, with some brick coloring and secondary fruit flavors of prune and raisin. Drinking nicely, and quite delicious. Along with the smooth fruit you get smoke, dust, cocoa and a hint of caramelized sugar.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Just four barrels of this reserve Merlot were made, and it’s a solid step up from the excellent regular bottling. This is more saturated and jammy, yet it does not settle just for sweetness and fruit. Concentrated black raspberry and blackberry flavors linger gracefully, then fade into smoky espresso and licorice. A substantial effort that was still drinking quite well three days after being opened.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The first Merlot from this promising new Walla Walla winery is built upon Pepper Bridge and Seven Hills fruit. Rich fruit flavors of red berries and cherries go deep and long, buoyed with firm acids and annotated with streaks of a chalky minerality. Long lasting and delicious, this is the sort of Merlot that will one day revive that forlorn grape’s sagging reputation.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tart, bright fruit flavors are beginning to soften with age. In the mix are black cherry, blackberry and plum. Substantial tannins provide a bed of coffee and cocoa, with a finish of clean, moist earth.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Just two barrels of 100% Syrah were made, using fruit from this dry-farmed vineyard with a distinctive flavor stamp. Tart, acidic, a bit spiky, with fruit flavors of sweet cherry tomato and grape candy. It hits a wall in the midpalate, seems to hover there for awhile, perhaps awaiting another couple of years of bottle age to flow freely through the finish.
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Otis Kenyon Syrah - 2008
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