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Betz Family Winery 2005 Père de Famille Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))

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Price $55

The fragrance is almost otherworldly; sweet, dense and lightly lifted. This is a sinewy wine, that begins with compact power and focused, tart red fruits—predominantly raspberry and currant. At first juicy and tart, with hours of breathing time the wine broadens out into a wider spectrum of Cabernet fruits; cassis, blackberry and black cherry. — P.G. (8/1/2008)

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Betz Family Winery 2005 Le Parrain Red Wine (Columbia Valley (WA))

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Price $85

Bob Betz calls this his first-ever “reserve style” wine from Bordeaux varieties. It started with a single barrel of Red Willow Cabernet Franc and evolved into this six-barrel blend. Le Parrain opens with whiffs of smoke, gun metal and rock weaving through the dense red fruits. Pipe tobacco and licorice flavors come into play from the barrel aging. As the wine… — P.G. (8/1/2008)

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Betz Family Winery 2003 Père de Famille Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))

Editors' Choice

Price $45

Firm, chewy, young, tight and yet quite supple and fulfilling, this stunning Cabernet is packed with a rainbow of fruit flavors—blueberry, black currant and black cherry—that open into a seamless, beautifully proportioned wine. The scents and flavors run the gamut from citrus peel to clove to oy to chocolate, espresso and beyond. — P.G. (6/1/2006)

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Betz Family Winery 2005 Clos de Betz Red Wine (Columbia Valley (WA))

Editors' Choice

Price $40

The 2005 Clos de Betz explodes from the glass with profound scents of pipe tobacco, violets, cherries and clove. Immediately supple and silky, this delicious blend of 56% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Malbec and 9% Cabernet Franc offers more complexity than any Clos de Betz to date. Silky, tightly packed fruit flavors are seamlessly blended, with berries… — P.G. (8/1/2008)

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Betz Family Winery 2002 La Serenne Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA))

Price $41

Dense and plush with exotic scents of roasted coffee, smoke, toast, cedar and blackberry jam, this is very young, showing mostly primary fruits and lots of new wood. But the ripe, sappy fruit, from an exceptional block in the Boushey vineyard, stands out, seamless and pure. Like a racehorse, this wine is sleek, powerful and perfectly proportioned. It offers immense… — P.G. (12/15/2004)

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Betz Family Winery 2004 La Cote Rousse Syrah (Red Mountain)

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Price $45

This Côte Rousse has really pulled itself together. It’s a subtle wine but offers perfectly ripened, silky, beautifully proportioned flavors of mixed fruits, highlighted with Rhône-like notes of mineral, forest floor, truffle and smoke. This is the good funk—the exotic nuances that come only from the most sensitive winemaking. A vin de garde, this should evolve… — P.G. (3/1/2007)

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Betz Family Winery 2005 La Serenne Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA))

Price $50

This 100% Syrah, all from the Boushey vineyard, sends up fragrances of sweet fruit, moist earth, leaf and smoked meat. Nuanced and evocative, this changes minute to minute in the glass. The mouthfeel can only be called voluptuous, wrapping the generous blue and purple fruit flavors in sweet, toasty oak. The alcohol is just under 15%, but the fruit carries it… — P.G. (5/1/2008)

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Betz Family Winery 2002 Clos de Betz Red (Columbia Valley (WA))

Editors' Choice

Price $29

Master of Wine Bob Betz has refined his winemaking to a style that is breaking new ground for the region. The Merlot-centric Clos de Betz (57% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cab Franc) is incredibly dense, concentrated and inky, yet retains amazing elegance. Its silky mouthfeel, brightness and finesse support supple, ripe, immaculate fruit. It’s all wrapped in… — P.G. (6/1/2005)

Most Reviewed Designations

Bésolei Bésoleil Chapitre 3 Clos de Betz Clos de Betz Red Wine La Cote Rousse La Serenne Le Parrain Red Wine Père de Famille

Most Reviewed Varietals

Bordeaux-style Red Blend Cabernet Sauvignon Grenache Red Blend Syrah

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