Vin du Lac
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Vin du Lac 2005 LEHM Dry Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))
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- $21
Very good, succulent and juicy with bright, bold flavors of citrus and tangerine. This has especially fine weight for a bone-dry Riesling, and it’s quite fresh and flavorful, rather than simply austere.
— P.G.
(3/1/2007)
Vin du Lac 2005 Barrel Select Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $26
This Chelan winery improves from vintage to vintage. This new Syrah is satiny and rich, with pliant flavors of mixed berry, cherry and stone fruit. The new oak adds smoke and toast, but the gamy, meaty and pungently herbal notes come from the grapes. Winemaker Larry Lehmbecker has crafted a seamless and complete wine that delivers a lot of pleasure for the price.
— P.G.
(3/1/2008)
Vin du Lac 2003 Barrel Select Merlot (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $28
The best of the winery’s reds; it’s thick and round, soft and luscious. A warm, forward, delicious wine, ripe and structured. Three quarters Merlot, with the rest split evenly between Malbec and Cab Franc.
— P.G.
(3/1/2007)
Vin du Lac 2003 Barrel Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Yakima Valley)
- $28
Licorice and sweet grape flavors dominate; the fruits remain sweet, primary flavors, like blueberry compote. The blend is a four grape Bordeaux mix, lacking only Merlot, and it was given 21 months in almost entirely new French oak, hence the strong licorice note. It could merit a higher score with additional bottle age.
— P.G.
(3/1/2007)
Vin du Lac 2006 Barrel Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))
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- $31
A step up from the Vin du Lac Merlot, this includes 16% Merlot and 8% Malbec in the blend, and profits from it, with dusty, sweet fruit that is not overwhelmed by the new oak. In the mouth, details from the 22 months it was aged in barrel begin to emerge, it’s not just a wash of vanilla and chocolate, but shows added complexity and texture.
— P.G.
(9/1/2009)
Vin du Lac 2004 Barrel Select Cabernet Franc (Columbia Valley (WA))
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- $28
A jammy, ripe red wine the sort of wine that sticks out in a large crowd and wins medals (which it has done, quite successfully) and it is certainly well made in a big, ripe, tannic style. But it is right on the edge of pushing it too far at 14.8% alcohol.
— P.G.
(3/1/2007)
Vin du Lac 2005 Barrel Select Cabernet Franc (Yakima Valley)
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- $35
Spicy and tough, this is a chewy, dark and tannic wine with strong flavors of black cherry fruit wrapped in thick tannins that taste of green tea and compost. It needs some softening—either bottle age or decanting—and then the rough edges should soften up and the very pretty cherry/berry fruit come front and center.
— P.G.
(3/1/2008)
Vin du Lac 2007 LEHM Dry Riesling (Chelan County)
- $20
Fresh, lightly pétillant, and scented with hints of clover and spice, this elegant dry Riesling offers light fruit flavors of pear, citrus, stone and herb. It loses momentum and fades rather quickly in the mouth.
— P.G.
(12/31/2008)
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