Winery - Woodward Canyon
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
An intense, deeply extracted wine with a powerful bouquet of blackberry jam, red-fruit preserves, and plenty of new oak. This wine screams “Drink me!” from the first sniff. It’s an 18-wheeler running down a steep grade. It explodes on the palate with a cloudburst of fruit, chocolate, smoke and oak, descending via soft, smooth tannins into a ripe, seductive, extended finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Once again Woodward Canyon has crafted a dense and powerful dry Riesling from DuBrul vineyard grapes. It strikes me as Australian in style, the perfect pairing of New World fruit and an almost austere minerality. Lingering notes of sweet grapefruit, orange, tangerine and lemon rind carry into a lush finish that keeps adding new flavors—ginger, apple, honey graham and more.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A limited-production wine, made in a bone-dry style. It is at once searingly tart and loaded with fresh, tangy lemon and citrus and green apple fruit. It shows terrific concentration and focus, and lingers in the back palate, begging for some spicy food to wash down.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Earthy aromas are intertwined with dried meat. Rich, chewy flavors are of blackberries and caramel. The balance of fruit, acid and tannins is exceptional, and the finish is extremely complex. With 3,100 cases produced, it should be readily available. —C.S.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Mixed, roasted nuts set up the layered aromas. Following are layers of stone fruits, spicy and textured, and fresh, ballpark roasted peanut flavors. Good penetration and a nice balance that captures the flavors of oak without making the wine oaky.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There is an unfortunately strong scent of burnt match to this wine, so much so that it can be tasted as well. Oversulfured though it may be, it’s a delicious bottle, with ripe, round fruit, made in a big, balanced style and enhanced with generous new oak. Air it out!
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Edgeless and hard to quantify. The nose smells like peach juice and aged cheese, while the palate offers very little heft or zest. A flat wine without much pulse.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This luscious Merlot jumps out with a big, bold nose and mouth-filling flavors of ripe cherry fruit. Forward, luscious and chocolatey, it’s a wide-open style of Merlot with lots of instant appeal. There isn’t a great deal of depth to the finish, but it’s well-built and can certainly be cellared for the next 5-6 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Champoux and DuBrul vineyards supplied the excellent fruit, roughly half each. This is Washington Syrah at its most dark, dense and deeply extracted. Beautifully structured, this exceptional wine is laced with roasted, toasty streaks of espresso and smoke. The fruit is substantial and more than up to the job of balancing the barrel flavors; you can’t really tell what flavors come from which. Long, polished and powerful, this is quite seductive and delicious.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a very distinctive, flavorful red Bordeaux blend—soft and spicy with unusual accents of grass and caramel. The flavors persist, the caramel streak gaining strength as it rolls through the palate, but always behind it is the taste of grain. Truly a unique red wine.
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