Published in August 2010
Wines, Spirits and Beers published in the August 2010 issue of Wine Enthusiast Magazine.
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Alpha Omega 2007 Beckstoffer To Kalon Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
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- $130
Awesome Cabernet from this esteemed vineyard in Oakville. Defines the modern Napa style in the perfectly ripe black currant and blackberry fruit, and the ultra-refined tannins. Hard to exaggerate the depth and length, the sheer opulence of this 100% Cab. It was aged in 80% new French oak, which adds even richer notes of wood smoke and sweet vanilla. Should evolve…
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Buty 2007 Champoux Vineyard Red (Horse Heaven Hills)
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- $55
Marvelously fragrant, with seductive scents of cherries, rocks and chocolate, which, along with the astonishing color saturation, suggest a wine of immense power. The 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc blend shows perfect ripeness with flavors of rock and acid preserved. This wine has it all—depth, blue and purple fruits, polished tannins—and probably a…
— P.G.
(8/1/2010)
Betz Family 2007 Père de Famille Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))
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- $60
This Père de Famille is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, with the rest split between Merlot and Petit Verdot. Sweet, pure fruit—black currants and black cherry and blackberry—is packed tight, concentrated and polished, but needing hours to breathe open. Dense, dusty, complex, complicated, this wine is sophisticated beyond description.
— P.G.
(8/1/2010)
Leonetti Cellar 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))
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- $85
The 76% Cabernet Sauvignon is melded with 17% Merlot, 4% Carmenère, and 3% Malbec, creating a stunningly dense, polished, tight wine. It’s light years away from the Leonetti’s of the 1980s—compact and loaded with black fruits, pepper, fresh herbs, rock, earth, toast and smoke. It’s so tight that it’s almost impossible to dissect. It needs time—a lot of time.
— P.G.
(8/1/2010)
Rulo 2007 Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $20
Superb fruit highlights this tight, sculpted Syrah. It’s extremely dense, with deep and intense raspberry and cassis fruit flavor, augmented with coffee grounds, smoke and iron filings. Complex, detailed, balanced and deep—what more can a wine give you? This is drinking very young and surely needs to be decanted. But already displaying amazing power.
— P.G.
(8/1/2010)
Rusack 2008 Reserve Chardonnay (Santa Maria Valley)
- Editors' Choice
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- $32
Guaranteed to please the most discriminating Chardonnay fans for its dry crispness, great structure and endless opulence. Massively complex, offering waves of grilled pineapple, pear, buttered toast and smoky vanilla. The grapes came mainly from Bien Nacido Vineyard, with the balance from Sierra Madre. Only 338 cases produced.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Ojai 2007 Clos Pepe Vineyard Chardonnay (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $38
Huge, rich, white Burgundy style Chardonnay. Has a pie-filling fruity richness of pineapples, lemondrop, pears, kiwi fruit and exotic kumquats, balanced with fine, minerally acidity, and wrapped into a buttercream texture. The oak is flamboyant, but perfectly in keeping with the wine’s volume. Dazzling and dramatic, from a vineyard that just keeps performing better…
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Andrew Will 2007 Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine (Red Mountain)
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- $53
A completely different blend from the winery’s 2006 Ciel, this reflects Chris Camarda’s growing enchantment with Cabernet Franc, which is now 45% of the blend. Most of the rest is Merlot—a Right Bank style. The concept works. It captures the sleek minerality of the site, and puts the fruit into tight, laser-like focus. The wine seems almost crystalline—sharp-edged…
— P.G.
(8/1/2010)
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