Winery - Va Piano
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Pure Cabernet, from Lewis and Cold Creek. Flavors are fresh and clean with sappy, tart berry flavors. Aromatic notes from the barrel add toasted coconut and mocha. Firm acids buoy the fruit, while retaining a pleasing roundness in the mid-palate. This is still quite young with pure, sweet cherry fruit and a slight rawness to the tannins. It should continue to improve in bottle for some years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The blend includes 3% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc. Very approachable, elegant and Margaux-like, this offers pretty, bright cherry fruit, some earthy notes, light toast, and plenty of acid to give it life and lift.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Smooth, luscious, dense and brilliant—the color is saturated and superbright—this silky wine has kept the tannins supple and ripe. It captures the essence of young, fresh, spicy Syrah, unadulterated or modified with other grapes. This is tight, firm, sappy, young and a bit relentless in a tough, confident style. Flavors of cranberry and wild raspberry run rampant, with plenty of acid to keep it clean and penetrating.
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Va Piano Syrah - 2005
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very pretty fruit, mostly from the young estate vineyard, sports flavors of fresh-squeezed grapes, plums and spicy cranberries. The oak is nicely applied, lending flavors of light cocoa and espresso bean to the well-balanced finish.
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Va Piano Syrah - 2003
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
All five Bordeaux grapes are in the blend. From a great Washington vintage, this is complex, with compelling scents—compact, concise, balanced, yet dense with flavor. Drinking beautifully, this elegant wine captures the vibrant cassis and berry fruit flavors of Washington, coupled with the streaks of earth and mineral that reference Bordeaux.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark, baking chocolate aromas are wrapped into thrilling cassis and black cherry fruit. The chocolate flavors run right through the core of the wine and into the tannins, smooth and supple. Still tight and dappled with peppery herb, this is a wine to cellar.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Young, tannic and not yet quite resolved, this wine needs more time in bottle. The components are good—cassis, black cherry, natural acidity, some earthy streaks of bark and astringency. They all need time to knit together; the aromas suggest that they will
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The wine is impenetrably dark, the aromas loaded with sharp berry fruit flavors, streaks of iron, rock and coffee grounds. In the mouth it’s sweet and spicy, with plenty of acid and mouth-drying tannins. It has benefited from extra time in the bottle, smoothed out somewhat, but still has a long life ahead.
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Va Piano Syrah - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rich, evocative, lush with aromas of earth, coffee, chocolate, mocha—scents that suggest excellent evolution ahead. Right now the fruit is primary, tart, raspberry and cherry, and not yet smoothed into the greater whole. But all the potential and pieces are there.
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Va Piano Syrah - 2008
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Young, tart, bright with blackberry and black cherry fruit flavors, dappled with pepper. The aromas give you a taste of the complexity; in the mouth there is primary fruit, a wash of acidity, and yet the promise is so much more. Give it some time in the cellar.
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Va Piano Syrah - 2008
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