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• Mmomike Likes this wine: 89 points

  April 8, 2024 - Just shedding some baby tannin to display deep lush dark fruit but there’s still some tannin to shed. This will likely improve a bit over the next 5-10 years. Moderate French oak toast, blackberry, cassis, very slight minty licorice, tasty but still some grip here.

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• Teamrehfeld wrote:

  October 21, 2023 - Excellent. Perfect balance of fruit, tannin, and acid. Very smooth. Sadly last bottle.

• fmginc Likes this wine: 89 points

  February 11, 2022 - deep rich color with full round fruit notes

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• fmginc Likes this wine: 89 points

  May 11, 2021 - great full fruit notes

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• Bob23 wrote: 89 points

  January 5, 2019 - Almost no bouquet upon opening - faint whiff of wet cardboard. Sour cherries and tartness predominate on the palate now, but I will try again with the rest of the bottle tomorrow.
  
  Much better on day 2 - I’ve raised the score accordingly. Still tastes like cherries, but riper and rounder, without the astringency from the just opened bottle. I’m definitely keeping the other bottle I have until 2020 or later. It’s now in the solid qpr, good example of a Washington merlot, category. And I no longer think the garagiste folks are nuts for recommending it. ;)

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Waters
• Varietal Merlot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Columbia Valley
• UPC Code 040232364501

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• In Cellars 86 (41%)
• Consumed 123 (59%)

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