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Kiona 2001 Estate Bottled Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)
- $32
Their reserve Cab, from their own Red Mountain vineyard, is this winery’s finest effort. The 2001 is not quite as penetrating and powerful as the magnificent 1999, but it is a stylish, polished, almost steely wine with medium-term aging potential, perfectly ripened fruit, a fine focus and highlights of Red Mountain minerals.
— P.G.
(5/1/2004)
Kiona 1999 Ice Wine Chenin Blanc (Yakima Valley)
- $19
Spice and melons illuminate the nose; the wine displays amazing concentration, with deep, syrupy peach and apricot fruit, and a bit of sugar and toasted coconut in the finish. Good acid balance. It's still very young, but immediately delicious.
— P.G.
(11/15/2000)
Kiona 2003 Dry Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))
- Best Buy
- $8
A whiff of bottling sulfur blows off quickly, leading into a bold, vivacious, crisply defined, dry and fruit-driven wine. Nicely mixes honeysuckle, Meyer lemon and hints of pink grapefruit with a textured, mineral finish.
— P.G.
(5/1/2004)
Kiona 2003 White Riesling (Columbia Valley (WA))
- Best Buy
- $8
This off-dry version is a perfect wine for Thai food. The fruit nicely combines tropical flavors with citrus; there is a hint of sweetness, and the elegant, stylish finish continues indefinitely. Graceful and seductive.
— P.G.
(5/1/2004)
Kiona 1998 Lemberger (Washington)
- Best Buy
- $10
A variety cultivated in Austria and Germany; Washington is the only place in the U.S. where it's grown in any quantity. This example offers a perfumed nose of cherries and berries, a medium body, rich fruit, and a fairly long, tangy finish. The variety's naturally high acidity has been tamed, but enough remains to make it versatile with food.
— W.E.
(11/15/1999)
Kiona 1999 Late Harvest Muscat (Yakima Valley)
- Best Buy
- $7
Pineapple, honeysuckle, baked apple and citrus all blend together in the nose. On the palate it is sweet but not too sweet, with good acid balance and just 10% alcohol. It adds up to a light, flavor-intensive dessert wine, with good concentration and appeal. Best Buy.
— P.G.
(11/15/2000)
Kiona 1998 Late Harvest White Riesling (Yakima Valley)
- Best Buy
- $7
Delicate, elegant and floral, with light flavors of white peaches and citrus blossom carrying over to a lingering, nicely knit, stylish and elegant finish. Just 10% alcohol. Best Buy.
— P.G.
(11/15/2000)
Kiona 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon (Washington)
- $20
A tight, spicy cab, with a gamy streak running through peppery, sweet black-cherry fruit. Plenty of firm tannins, and some early suggestions of lead pencil and tobacco, along with anise and smoke.
— P.G.
(5/1/2004)
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