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Price $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)

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Poet's Leap 2009 Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))

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Price $20

With residual sugar at about 1.35%, this balances the acidity without seeming sweet. Hand-picked and whole-cluster pressed, this immaculate, fresh, generous and stylish Riesling is always at the top of the list of Washington’s best. Loaded with grapefruit, citrus and stone flavors, it cleans the palate and piles on the details as it rolls into a finish that lingers… — P.G. (12/31/2010)

95

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Rulo 2010 Chardonnay (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

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Price $20

Simply astonishing for its price, this toasty, rich wine matches ripe flavors of peach, red apple and light tropical fruit. Thick, juicy, and seductive, it finishes with a lick of butterscotch. — P.G. (9/1/2012)

95

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Dunham 2010 Lewis Estate Vineyard Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))

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Price $20

Truly stunning, the Lewis Estate Riesling from Dunham explodes with fragrant fruits—citrus, melon and tropical. A symphony of subtle accents, such as powdered sugar, candied citrus peel and breakfast tea, this gorgeous bottle belongs with the short list of the very best of Washington’s many Rieslings. — P.G. (12/31/2012)

94

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Navarro 2006 Muscat Blanc (Anderson Valley)

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Price $19

This is an amazing wine. It’s bone-dry and very high in acidity, one of the most distinctive white wines in California. The racy quality supports intense flavors of steely minerals, orange and lime zest and apricots, wrapped into a rich, oily texture. It accomplishes the magic of tasting honey-sweet but finishing thoroughly dry. Will age, too. A 2001, tasted… — S.H. (8/1/2008)

94

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Alma Rosa 2006 Chardonnay (Santa Barbara County)

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Price $20

Starts with an opulent, inviting aroma of smoky honey, vanilla, tangerines, Meyer lemons, yellow apricots, green apples and minerals. In the mouth, the flavors are very similar—an explosion of fruits, spices and toast. Just a tremendous wine, but for all the volume and complexity, it’s completely balanced. — S.H. (9/1/2008)

94

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D'Arenberg 2008 The Noble Wrinkled Riesling (McLaren Vale)

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Price $19

Lovely dessert-style Riesling at an extremely attractive price. It yields dried apricot aromas, then turns to honeyed marmalade in the mouth, just loaded with orange-apricot preserves. It’s weighty and viscous, with a long, sweet finish. Should last through at least 2016. — J.C. (9/1/2010)

94

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Forgeron 2008 Late Harvest Sémillon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

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Price $14

Les Collines vineyard provided the fruit, a thick, honeyed mass of dried apricots, peaches and papaya. Dense yet retaining its acid-driven structure, it’s a rich, seemingly endless dive into a vat of sweet nectar. The residual sugar (9.6%) and alcohol (10.5%) are in perfect balance. — P.G. (11/1/2010)

Rulo 2007 Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA))

Poet's Leap 2009 Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))

Rulo 2010 Chardonnay (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

Dunham 2010 Lewis Estate Vineyard Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))

Navarro 2006 Muscat Blanc (Anderson Valley)

Alma Rosa 2006 Chardonnay (Santa Barbara County)

D'Arenberg 2008 The Noble Wrinkled Riesling (McLaren Vale)

Forgeron 2008 Late Harvest Sémillon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

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