The Queen of the Platinum — Coco Umiker — has spotlighted the Beightol family’s Phinny Hill Vineyard in Washington’s Horse Heaven Hills for nine of her 46 career Platinums. Her latest is for this stunning Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (56%), Carménère (42%) and Merlot. It’s heady stuff with aromas of dark cherry, cigar box and leather precede a palate of fig, strawberry … [Read more...] about Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2021 Phinny Hill Vineyard Coco’s Reserve Spice Market, Washington $38
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Clearwater Canyon Cellars NV Waha IV Red Wine, Washington $28
For the second straight year, Coco Umiker’s fascinating Waha program has received a Platinum, and here is her first Double Platinum for the multi-vintage blend. Its legacy harkens back to when she held back several barrels of red wine from the 2015 vintage. Later, she sent wine from those selected barrels through fresh lees from some 2016 reds and returned that wine to barrel. … [Read more...] about Clearwater Canyon Cellars NV Waha IV Red Wine, Washington $28
Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2021 Heritage Series Louis Delsol Cabernet Sauvignon, Lewis-Clark Valley $36
The story of Louis Delsol, the Frenchman who established the Lewis-Clark Valley’s first vineyard in 1872, continues to be retold in delicious fashion by the Umikers. Coco Umiker works with Cabernet Sauvignon grown by her husband, Karl, as well as two other L-C Valley sites — Arnett Vineyard and Rock n’ J Vineyard. Its theme of blackberry cobbler, muscovado sugar, forest floor, … [Read more...] about Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2021 Heritage Series Louis Delsol Cabernet Sauvignon, Lewis-Clark Valley $36
Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2020 The Wine Project, Idaho 60%, Washington 40% $32
The diminutive Coco Umiker goes Petit/ Petite heavy with her latest Wine Project, earning her second Platinum in three years for the blend. This formula of Petit Verdot (43%) and Petite Sirah (30%), followed by Cabernet Sauvignon (11%), Carménère, Cabernet Franc (5%) and Malbec is a collection from the three vineyards in Washington she works with and those near her Lewiston, … [Read more...] about Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2020 The Wine Project, Idaho 60%, Washington 40% $32
Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2021 Verhey Vineyard Malbec, Washington $28
This newly released Malbec impressed the West Coast wine buyers and sommeliers who met in the Columbia Gorge for the Great Northwest Invitational, and it went on to win winemaker Coco Umiker a fourth career Platinum for her work with the juicy Bordeaux grape. It’s a suave example out of the Yakima Valley, packed full of flavors and showy with cassis, Craisin, golden raspberry, … [Read more...] about Clearwater Canyon Cellars 2021 Verhey Vineyard Malbec, Washington $28