Winery - Pendulum
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Originally intended as a higher end wine in collaboration with Long Shadows, this is now a sensational value. From an outstanding vintage, it’s a Cabernet-dominated blend of grapes from top Washington vineyards. Supple, lightly toasty, layered with wild berry and chocolaty earth flavors, this is the wine to slip into a blind tasting of pricier blends.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a collaboration between Long Shadows and Precept Brands. Half Cabernet and the rest an unusual mix of Merlot, Syrah, Cab Franc and Barbera, it’s a kitchen sink compendium of grapes from a dozen vineyards scattered across the state. Predictably, it’s a diffuse, unfocused red blend, which does not express grape or region in any identifiable way. A good quaffer.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Pendulum is a collaboration with Allen Shoup (Long Shadows), and that, plus the fact that this 1,500-case red wine is a mix of eight different varieties, suggests that it is crafted from barrels that did not make the final blend for Long Shadows. There is plenty of expensive, toasty new oak in the nose, cedar and smoke and black olive also, but the wine doesn’t really have any focus. Pleasant, especially for the new oak.
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