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Stevens 2006 BlackTongue Syrah (Yakima Valley)

Editors' Choice

Price $32

An immense, black, moody wine with a spectacular mix of black fruits, cassis, earth, soy and forest floor, it remains thoroughly delicious and polished despite its size. This will clearly improve with more bottle age, but it’s already impressive and drinking well. Long and textural, the finish lingers with ground coffee and baking chocolate highlights. — P.G. (3/1/2009)

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Stevens 2006 XY Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Yakima Valley)

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Price $42

This is the most compact and least expressive wine of the current releases from Stevens. It’s the winery’s reserve, and a proven ager, but needs plenty of breathing time to release the layers of iron, earth, blackberry, black cherry, iodine, smoke and licorice. — P.G. (12/31/2009)

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Stevens 2007 XY Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Yakima Valley)

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Price $42

Top lots from Sheridan, Dineen and Meek vineyard grapes go into this reserve. This is always the most thick and dense of the Stevens wines, and the tannins, though very well managed, are chewy and substantial. They dominate this young wine, but the stacked and subtle layers of red and black fruits, leaf and forest floor materials, moist earth and ashes keep the… — P.G. (12/1/2010)

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Stevens 2007 Merlot (Yakima Valley)

Price $30

This pure Merlot is full-bodied and still rather oaky, but packed with very firm, compact black fruits, and layered with smoke, graphite, black olive. Dense and textural, there is a fine grip to the tannins. — P.G. (12/31/2009)

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Stevens 2007 Timley Malbec (Yakima Valley)

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Price $30

This pure Malbec captures the perfect essence of the grape. It’s tight, tart, bright with concentrated raspberry fruit, very much like a very ripe Dry Creek Zin. Just a little hot, but delicious; with extraordinary length and focus. — P.G. (12/31/2009)

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Stevens 2008 Merlot (Yakima Valley)

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Price $28

As in past vintages, this is half DuBrul and half Meek vineyard fruit. It’s a far cry from what most consumers would think of as Merlot—this is a stiff, tannic, muscular wine, with a deep earthiness that speaks of rich loam and ancient rock. It strikes me as more typical of Malbec. The tannins are firm and dense, and the fruits are black as coal and laced with tar… — P.G. (12/1/2010)

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Stevens 2008 XY Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Yakima Valley)

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Price $42

The sixth release of this outstanding reserve holds firm to the well-established style. Bright, tart, ripe and compact red-berry fruit is set against firm, polished tannins. Still young and hard, it needs plenty of breathing time, or better yet, cellar it for a few years. Tim Stevens’s reds have proven ageworthy, and this earthy, smoky, textural and well-crafted… — P.G. (4/1/2012)

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Stevens 2003 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))

An extra level of moss, tar and licorice is evident here. Thick and tight, it’s great Cabernet, packed and dense, complete in all respects, loaded with rich black fruits set against balancing acids and nicely applied new oak. A star. — P.G. (8/1/2006)

Most Reviewed Designations

424 424 Red Blend 424 Red Wine AfterThought AnArtisticThought Black Tongue BlackTongue Divio Reserve Timley XY Reserve

Most Reviewed Varietals

Bordeaux-style Red Blend Cabernet Franc Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec Merlot Red Blend Sauvignon Blanc Syrah Viognier

2010 Pence Ranch Westslope

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