Winery - Trio Vintners
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The color is very pretty, and the wine a bit tight. As it opens up it is surprisingly chewy, leafy and slightly hot at 14.1% alcohol. Perhaps from young vines?
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
It’s quite different from the winery’s inaugural 2005 Sangiovese, with more sweet cranberry fruit and chewy, peppery tannins. It’s got both muscle and spice, with a sweet, cotton candy core that is buttressed with the power of the lengthy finish that adds layers of fat and cocoa.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The ’06 was a 16% monster, but delicious. The ’07 is just as good, but swings less of a hammer. Alcohol is 14.8%, yet the wine comes across as the concentrated essence of raspberries and cherries, lifted with all-natural acids, and showing a piercing core that just keeps on going.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This belongs up there with Walla Walla’s best Sangioveses (Leonetti, Walla Walla Vintners). From the outstanding Morrison Lane vineyard, it’s a plush, toasty wine whose strawberry fruit is matched and balanced against toast, vanilla and tobacco. The mouthfeel is generous and somehow crunchy.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Aggressively herbal, as this grape can often be, yet complex and interesting. The mix of herbs, grass, stem and tart red fruit is well balanced, and there is just a hint of milk chocolate and black licorice in the finish. Think a slightly riper, rounder take on Chilean Carmenère.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Definitely a New World style, this tasty Tempranillo, from Les Collines vines, brings strawberry and raspberry fruit, along with chocolate graham cracker highlights. Hints of briar and herb add complexity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This creative blend—52% Sangiovese, 36% Syrah, 12% Mourvèdre—is sharp, peppery and tart. It livens up the palate, begs for a juicy burger, and shows some Euro style. RIOT is an anagram of the winery name.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The winery’s very limited riserva bottling is made in a single 500-liter puncheon and for the first time features Boushey vineyard fruit. Tannic and displaying impressive mass, it offers somewhat liquorous plum and cherry fruit flavors, with smoke and licorice streaking through the finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A very pretty effort, the wine’s strawberry and rhubarb flavors are balanced against spring herbs and hints of leaf. The Morrison Lane Sangiovese is blended with 15% Syrah from the Boushey vineyard.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This young Syrah is dark and fruity, with a strong layer of Rhône-like flavors of cured meat, bacon and black pepper. It’s a bit wild and unchained, and the unexpected complexity amps up the juicy, spicy blueberry and plum flavors.
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