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Isenhower 2008 Batchelor's Button Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))
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- $29
Somehow the label’s misspelling of Bachelor’s Button slipped by the authorities. Surplus T aside, this is a generous wine, whose plummy, peppery fruit is dotted with details of herb, spicecake and chocolate. Smooth, velvety tannins add to the pleasure.
— P.G.
(11/1/2011)
Isenhower 2008 Wild Thyme Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))
- Editors' Choice
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- $29
A very pretty nose sends up scents of flowers and brambly red fruits. The palate is consistent, buoyed by juicy acidity, with complex fruit and flower grace notes. It’s all free-run juice, aged in 100% neutral French oak barrels.
— P.G.
(11/1/2011)
Isenhower 2006 Bachelor’s Button Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $28
It’s supple, lightly spicy and svelte—it has the sleekness of a fine racehorse, and runs across the palate at a confident gallop. Brambly, elegant and nuanced with herb and ripe stone fruits, with poise and balance to burn.
— P.G.
(8/1/2009)
Isenhower 2006 River Beauty Syrah (Horse Heaven Hills)
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- $26
The outstanding Elerding vineyard provided the fruit in 2006. From the opening whiff of dried spice, fresh herb, pepper and earth, it opens into a rich palate stocked with wild fruits, moist earth, coffee grounds and leafy forest floor materials. If you enjoy your Syrah on the wild side, you will want a bottle of this.
— P.G.
(8/1/2009)
Isenhower 2010 White Paintbrush (Yakima Valley)
- $19
Roughly four-fifths Roussanne and one-fifth Marsanne, this crisp, clean and elegant white wine is underscored with bracing minerality. The fruit suggests gentle flavors of pineapple and papaya, mango and melon, a lovely melding of citrus and tropical. A pleasing wine with modest alcohol and plenty of finesse.
— P.G.
(11/1/2011)
Isenhower 2008 El Conquistador Red (Horse Heaven Hills)
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- $29
This Tempranillo-Mourvèdre-Syrah blend is smooth and captivating. The cherry-flavored fruit sports many herbal highlights, a vanilla streak, and tannins that bring an impression of soft leather. The partial fermentation in French oak brings interesting chocolatey molé flavors to the back of the throat.
— P.G.
(11/1/2011)
Isenhower 2007 Rosé (Horse Heaven Hills)
- Editors' Choice
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- $17
This is an excellent, concentrated southern Rhône style rosé crafted from 58% Counoise, 30% Mourvèdre and 12% Grenache. It’s bone dry, spicy and dense; in fact, unlike most rosés, it could be aged for another year or two.
— P.G.
(11/1/2008)
Isenhower 2006 Red Paintbrush (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $28
This classic Bordeaux blend—67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, 17% Cab Franc and 6% Petit Verdot—is crafted from 100% Sagemoor vineyard grapes. It’s chewy and herbal, with substantial tannins. It probably needs some time to smooth out the rough spots, but it’s got character and a mix of Bordeaux-like cassis and herb flavors, all in good balance and finished…
— P.G.
(11/1/2008)
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