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Chateau Rollat 2005 Edouard de Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

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Price $62

This is a showstopper, the top of the line at Chateau Rollat, certainly one of the most exciting new ventures to open in Walla Walla in the past decade. Deep and compact, it’s a classic wine to cellar, holding its dark and smoky secrets tightly wound around a core of dense black fruits nuanced with streaks of bark, soil, earth and barrel. A subtle, moody and yet… — P.G. (3/1/2009)

Chateau Rollat 2006 Edouard de Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

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Price $65

The label reads “The finest wine of Chateau Rollat Winery” and indeed it is, though in 2006 the immediate show-stopping appeal of the 2005 has been muted, or at least postponed. Here are nuanced, stacked flavors that subsume the berry and cassis fruit under herbs, earth and stone. The aromas are lively with lovely floral notes, primary grape smells, and juicy… — P.G. (3/1/2009)

Chateau Rollat 2007 Edouard de Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley)

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Price $62

At first this seems a bit attenuated; the midpalate a bit dumb. The tannins are astringent and fine, and the fruit is clean and tart, and needs extended decanting. Sleek, Bordeaux-like, and quite firm, it has a strong streak of graphite and clean earth, with polished tannins and impressive depth and length. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

Chateau Rollat 2007 Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley)

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Price $38

This wine is still a baby. Deep fruit flavors of boysenberry, cassis and black cherry are tightly wrapped in dark barrel flavors of graphite and baking spices; tannins are still stiff with tongue-drying astringency. This wine has texture and depth, but needs time and attention to its subtleties. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

Chateau Rollat 2005 Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

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Price $38

Rollat is the mid-level red wine of the three inaugural releases from Chateau Rollat. It’s less brooding and compact than the companion Edouard Cabernet. Immediately accessible, it could almost be the template for this new and exciting producer; elegant, polished and supple with ripe sweet fruit and fine tannins. Flavors of black cherry and cassis envelop the… — P.G. (3/1/2009)

Chateau Rollat 2007 Sophie de Rollat Red (Walla Walla Valley)

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Price $29

Young and hard, with sharp edges but excellent components. A bigger wine than the ’06 Sophie. Still a firm, tannic, rather hard-edged wine, but delicious. Pepper Bridge and Seven Hills fruit delivers excellent structure and depth, polished tannins, with cassis and blackberry fruit driven deep into the core of the wine. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

Chateau Rollat 2006 Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

Price $45

Less immediately accessible than the 2005, the 2006 is tight and tart and almost seems encased in some sort of a shell. The fruit is concentrated raspberry and plum, and the acids taste natural while the tannins are polished and proportionate. The wine stays focused and strong through a very long finish that dapples in toasted coconut and chocolate malt. If you are… — P.G. (3/1/2009)

Chateau Rollat 2008 Rollat Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley)

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Price $38

Sweet barrel flavors set off pretty fruit, a generous mix of cherries and berries, with juicy underlying acidity. This wine needs quite a bit more time to unfold. For the moment, all the components are right but the integration is not complete. — P.G. (9/1/2011)

Prominent Designations

Edouard de Rollat Rollat Sophie de Rollat

Most Reviewed Regions

Walla Walla Valley Walla Walla Valley (WA)

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