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Mark Ryan 2008 Dead Horse Red (Red Mountain)

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Price $45

This is the first wine to be blended each year, though it is not labeled a reserve. The new vintage has amazing depth, running down through a litany of red and black fruits, into veins of earth and tannin and graphite, and finishing with densely textured barrel notes of toast, coffee and bitter chocolate. Beautifully proportioned, deep and cellarworthy. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

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Mark Ryan 2007 Lonely Heart Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)

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Price $75

The first reserve from this winery, this is the most structured, dense and tightly layered Mark Ryan wine to date. It has the density and compact structure of Quilceda Creek, with perhaps just a shade less concentration. Aromatically complex, you can pick out early details of seed, coffee, pepper, chocolate and tobacco around the dense cassis, plum and cherry fruit… — P.G. (11/1/2010)

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Mark Ryan 2009 Lonely Heart Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)

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Price $80

Pure, dense and deep, this captures the pure essence of Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. Berry and cherry flavors surface in equal proportion, with more rock than barrel adding complexity throughout the finish. Excellent depth and structure suggest that this is one to put down for a decade or more. — P.G. (11/1/2012)

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Mark Ryan 2009 Long Haul Merlot-Cabernet Franc-Malbec-Petit Verdot Red (Red Mountain)

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Price $48

A blend of 64% Merlot and 27% Cabernet Franc, with splashes of Malbec and Petit Verdot, this is built for the long haul. Raspberries, cherries and rich chocolate run through this fine-tuned, focused wine. It’s deep, elegant and penetrating, with a show-stopping layer of pure mineral that is so powerful the fruit seems soaked in rock. — P.G. (11/1/2012)

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Mark Ryan 2007 Long Haul Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine (Red Mountain)

Price $45

Here is a mouth-pleasing blend of 66% Merlot and 34% Cab Franc that builds the wine from the aromas out. The Merlot brings lush black cherry fruit to a broad midpalate, while the Cab Franc chimes in with roasted coffee and dark chocolate notes. The mix is perfect, tongue-coating and satisfying, right on through a long, peppery finish. — P.G. (11/1/2010)

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Mark Ryan 2009 Chardonnay (Columbia Valley (WA))

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Price $28

Beautiful craftsmanship is on display in this mélange of mouth-coating butterscotch, Meyer lemon and sweet citrus flavors. It’s rich without being at all tiring, and the lengthy and succulent fruit flavors keep adding details, such as hints of cucumber and herb. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

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Mark Ryan 2004 Dead Horse Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red (Red Mountain)

Price $42

This wine somewhat inverts the winery’s Long Haul label, with Cabernet dominant rather than Merlot. It is the most compact, vertical and indecipherable of the Mark Ryan wines, and the most potentially expressive of the magnificent Ciel du Cheval fruit. Black cherry, licorice, smoke and graphite add layers of darkness—a veritable Joseph Conrad wine—and it will… — P.G. (12/31/2006)

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Mark Ryan 2008 Water Witch Red (Red Mountain)

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Price $45

Great structure supports a massive, Cabernet-dominated wine, predictably loaded with ripe, chewy tannins. The flavors spread out thickly over deep and brambly black cherry fruit, layering in highlights of smoke and toffee. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

Most Reviewed Designations

Bad Lands Red Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Crazy Mary Crazy Mary Ciel du Cheval Dead Horse Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine Lonely Heart Long Haul Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine Long Haul Red The Dissident Water Witch Klipsun Vineyard Red Wine Wild Eyed

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Bordeaux-style Red Blend Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Mourvèdre Pinot Noir Red Blend Sémillon Syrah Viognier White Blend

2009 W.H. Smith Bronze Label Piedra Hill Vineyard

This Cabernet shows the austerity and dry tannins of a Howell Mountain…

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