90
points
Alder Ridge 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon (Horse Heaven Hills)
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$40
Alder Ridge is the label for the top wines from Corus Brands. Aromatic and complex, it’s a young wine that seems to still be raveling itself together. The winemaker attributes the choppiness to cross-flow filtering, but it is meaty and substantial, and showing a supple, varietal, seamless profile: bright cranberry and raspberry fruit, layers of coffee, butterscotch…
— P.G.
(12/1/2008)