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Cadence 2004 Camerata Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)

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Price $50

This is a special wine, a beautiful rendition of pure Cab from a single Red Mountain vineyard—Tapteil. It shows the power of the grape, the structural verticality, the austerity, but it is also ripe enough to stand alone and shine all by itself. This is a perfectly sculpted wine, elegant and fine, sleek and muscular. It needs time, no doubt, but it’s delicious… — P.G. (3/1/2007)

Cadence 2003 Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red (Red Mountain)

Price $38

Gorgeous, elegant and refined, this opens into wonderfully aromatic scents of dusty coffee, cocoa and mocha. There are streaks of chalk, limestone, gravel and pencil lead, mixed fruits and hints of expressive spice all beautifully layered throughout. Cellar this for at least five years to pull everything together. — P.G. (4/1/2006)

Cadence 2003 Bel Canto Red (Red Mountain)

Price $50

The winery’s selection of its best barrels makes a fascinating wine, showing mixed Asian spices, supple fruit and beautiful fine-grained tannins. Muscular and detailed, it has a bit of an alcoholic kick to the finish. Powerful and very well-crafted. — P.G. (4/1/2006)

Cadence 2004 Taptiel Vineyard Red (Red Mountain)

Price $38

Soft, spicy and complex, but also muscular; this Cabernet-driven Bordeaux blend may be the most complex of Cadence’s three vineyard-designates. The wine has more heat and power than the other two, and I love the way the spice kicks in. There is considerable toasty and coffee flavor in it as well; all wrapped into a lush and harmonious, smooth and contiguous whole. — P.G. (3/1/2007)

Cadence 2007 Tapteil Red (Red Mountain)

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Price $45

Lovely aromas are a perfect mix of dust, rock, cassis and black fruits; the flavors carry so much detail that it’s hard to catalog it all. Subtle but well defined, they cascade over and around each other in a gentle profusion—there is black cherry, then rock, then lead pencil, then some smoke, then a whiff of licorice, and so on. A fascinating wine with good aging… — P.G. (2/1/2011)

Cadence 2006 Cara Mia Vineyard Camerata Red Wine (Red Mountain)

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Price $55

This is the first release from Cadence’s estate vineyard, a 94/6 blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cab Franc. Sharp and intense, the nose brings out tightly wound red fruit scents, annotated with leaf and white pepper. In this inaugural vintage the Cabernet Sauvignon clearly dominates. A supple, muscular, focused wine with the structure to develop nicely for up to a… — P.G. (3/1/2009)

Cadence 2002 Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine (Red Mountain)

Price $37

Released in November, has opened up nicely since. Breathes well in the glass; a hefty, aromatic, plummy wine showing nicely integrated soft cherry and tobacco notes, along with seductive streaks of citrus, clove and graphite. It’s smooth but not at all flabby, displaying the hints of minerality that mark Ciel fruit. — P.G. (12/15/2005)

Cadence 2004 Klipsun Vineyard Red (Red Mountain)

Price $38

From the exceptional Klipsun vineyard, this blend of two thirds Merlot and one third Cabernet Sauvignon delivers beautifully softened and ripened tannins. This is a great effort; it clearly shows why Washington is the place for that grape, and the Cabernet filling in the spine. The oak (40% new, all French) is matched to the weight of the fruit, and used properly… — P.G. (3/1/2007)

2009 Venge Bone Ash Vineyard

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