Winery - Wineglass Cellars
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Wineglass makes its Merlot 100%, and it’s fun to taste the grape straight up like this. Light, with pretty cherry/rhubarb flavors, it has a nice tart, acidic edge, and balanced tannins, with some herbal notes through the finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Great mouth presence, built upon stylish, racy fruit. It’s tangy and spicy and handles the 100% new French oak with ease. Sappy and loaded with bright, tart red fruit flavors, this is a really pleasurable wine. Unfortunately, just 25 cases were made.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Black cherry mixes with black olive and bell pepper, with a hard, earthy edge to the substantial tannins. A couple more years of bottle age will help smooth out the rough edges.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a very well-made, sleekly styled wine, with classy mixed red fruits leading into a sweet, sculpted midpalate. The fruit is perfectly ripe, and the oak is a seasoning, not a lumber yard. A textbook example of Washington Cabernet.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A late release ’99, this displays the tough, chewy tannins of that excellent vintage, and has the dry, tight, concentrated flavors of a good unclassified Bordeaux. Air it out and some nice spice starts to emerge. This is a fine effort in a good year.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tannic and firm, this has some pretty cherry fruit lurking behind the stiff tannins. It’s still tight, despite the bottle time, but it’s well made. Nice oak flavors of hazelnut, spice and sandalwood liven up the finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
One barrel only was made, with grapes from the Boushey vineyard. Scents of barnyard, flavors of peat, earth, leather and herb are wrapped tightly into spicy raspberry fruit. Tart and tangy, this wine would benefit from some additional cellar time.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark, ripe and vinous, this is a flavorful wine with plump, pruney fruit above oak-driven flavors of roasted nuts and milk chocolate. Tasty, near-term drinking.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This superb vineyard delivers, once again, an elegant, textured, subtle wine that will reward cellaring. Not as powerful as the ’99, yet it shows the same smoky, dusty black cherry and cassis scents, ripe cassis fruit, and hints of earth and mineral. Tannins are quite tough and chewy.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A late release ’99, this displays the tough, chewy tannins of that excellent vintage, and has the dry, tight, concentrated flavors of a good unclassified Bordeaux. Air it out and some nice spice starts to emerge. This is a fine effort in a good year.
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