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Va Piano 2007 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley)
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Dark, baking chocolate aromas are wrapped into thrilling cassis and black cherry fruit. The chocolate flavors run right through the core of the wine and into the tannins, smooth and supple. Still tight and dappled with peppery herb, this is a wine to cellar.
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
Va Piano 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (Columbia Valley (WA))
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All five Bordeaux grapes are in the blend. From a great Washington vintage, this is complex, with compelling scents—compact, concise, balanced, yet dense with flavor. Drinking beautifully, this elegant wine captures the vibrant cassis and berry fruit flavors of Washington, coupled with the streaks of earth and mineral that reference Bordeaux.
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
Va Piano 2005 Syrah (Columbia & Walla Walla Valleys)
- $38
Smooth, luscious, dense and brilliant—the color is saturated and superbright—this silky wine has kept the tannins supple and ripe. It captures the essence of young, fresh, spicy Syrah, unadulterated or modified with other grapes. This is tight, firm, sappy, young and a bit relentless in a tough, confident style. Flavors of cranberry and wild raspberry run rampant…
— P.G.
(12/1/2007)
Va Piano 2006 Syrah (Columbia & Walla Walla Valleys)
- $38
This has lovely raspberry and cranberry fruit, with beautifully laid-in highlights of baking spice, white pepper and dried herb. Some early suggestions of cured meat are also starting to show, but the fruit is the real star, sappy and juicy and deep without being heavy or hot.
— P.G.
(8/1/2008)
Va Piano 2007 Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA))
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The wine is impenetrably dark, the aromas loaded with sharp berry fruit flavors, streaks of iron, rock and coffee grounds. In the mouth it’s sweet and spicy, with plenty of acid and mouth-drying tannins. It has benefited from extra time in the bottle, smoothed out somewhat, but still has a long life ahead.
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
Va Piano 2008 Uniti Red (Walla Walla Valley)
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All estate, a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cab Franc, 14% Merlot, and 14% Petit Verdot. This is tilted toward a French Bordeaux style, with an earthy, woody character integrated into the wine. The fruit is well defined, tight and compact cassis and cherry, with the chocolaty streak that characterizes the Va Piano vineyard. Very young, very tight, with good…
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
Va Piano 2008 Estate Syrah (Walla Walla Valley)
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- $48
Young, tart, bright with blackberry and black cherry fruit flavors, dappled with pepper. The aromas give you a taste of the complexity; in the mouth there is primary fruit, a wash of acidity, and yet the promise is so much more. Give it some time in the cellar.
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
Va Piano 2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley)
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Young, tannic and not yet quite resolved, this wine needs more time in bottle. The components are good—cassis, black cherry, natural acidity, some earthy streaks of bark and astringency. They all need time to knit together; the aromas suggest that they will
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
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