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Soos Creek 2003 Champoux Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))

Price $30

You’ll find this underrated producer offers wines with wonderful density and concentration, ripely balanced, plummy, mixed red fruits, and elegantly astringent tannins. There is real winemaking craft on display here, every detail beautifully rendered, substantial but not out of whack in any way. The fragrant, evocative results showcase the fruit but also buttress… — P.G. (6/1/2006)

Soos Creek 2005 Artist Series #5 Red Wine (Columbia Valley (WA))

Editors' Choice

Price $35

This Bordeaux blend needs some air to shed it’s slightly reductive aromas, but then bursts into vivid life with succulent, sweet raspberry/cherry fruit, nicely supported with tangy acids and firm, ripe, well-rounded tannins. The streak of smoke and licorice in the finish remains compact and bound, but suggests that as this lovely bottle ages it will reveal more and… — P.G. (5/1/2008)

Soos Creek 2007 Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine (Red Mountain)

Editors' Choice

Price $33

Mostly Cabernet Sauvignon, with 18% Cab Franc and 9% Merlot, this is sculpted with refined dark fruits, streaks of mineral, coffee, iron and earth, and a compelling density. — P.G. (3/1/2010)

Soos Creek 2003 Ciel du Cheval Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)

Price $33

A bit more austere (for the moment) than the Champoux bottling, this has the vineyard’s characteristically tight streak of mineral running through its core. Mixed scents suggest hay and pie cherries. There is plenty of substantial viscosity, but nothing heavy about the mouthfeel. This is sleek, deceptively light, tasting of stones, with soft hints of berry, good… — P.G. (6/1/2006)

Soos Creek 2003 Artist's Series #3 Red Wine (Columbia Valley (WA))

Price $28

A full-on Bordeaux blend, with 61% Cab Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 11% Cab Franc and 9% Petit Verdot. Tight and slatey, it’s got firm, hard—but certainly ripe—tannins wrapped around concentrated cassis and mulberry fruit. It’s very well made but can use some softening up; a few more years will add to its complexity and develop its bouquet. — P.G. (6/1/2006)

Soos Creek 2006 Ciel du Cheval Vineyard Red Wine (Red Mountain)

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Price $40

Here the blend is two thirds Cabernet Sauvignon, the rest an even split between Cab Franc and Merlot. Straightforward and unadorned, this wine is tightly defined, with sleek and juicy red fruit flavors. Cranberry, raspberry, pie cherry and even a bit of pomegranate mingle together, with substantial acids. The 50% new oak is barely evident, but some pleasing… — P.G. (3/1/2009)

Soos Creek 1999 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))

Editors' Choice

Price $36

This is the first reserve for this unassuming, low-profile winery whose wines clearly belong in the first rank of Washington’s boutiques. It shows classic Cabernet fruit from three top vineyards, long and persistent, yet never over extracted or alcoholic. True Bordeaux style in an elegant, ageworthy wine. Editors’ Choice. — P.G. (6/1/2002)

Soos Creek 2004 Ciel du Cheval Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)

Price $35

Again winemaker Dave Larsen has made a classic Ciel du Cheval Cabernet, an austere mix of mineral and green tea flavors, hard and tight and densely compacted. The opening aromas hint at dried grass and wild berries, with a bracing minerality. This is a vintage (and a vineyard) that will certainly reward cellaring, for up to 20 years. The alcohol is a moderate 14.1%. — P.G. (5/1/2007)

2009 Coghlan Diopside

While the texture of this Pinot is silky and light, it’s dramatic in…

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