This same wine earned a Platinum in 2016, and the Mercer family entered it into the Seattle Wine Awards’ 2023 Diamond of the Decade judging. It remains a legacy of Jessica Munnell, whose winemaking helped Mercer Estates receive Wine Press Northwest’s Washington Winery of the Year award in 2016. This well-balanced Merlot has complex aromas and flavors of dark cherry, red … [Read more...] about Mercer Estates Winery 2013 Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills $35
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Paul Champoux to stage tasting of 100-point wines by Quilceda Creek
PROSSER, Wash. — For those curious to taste a 100-point wine, storied grower Paul Champoux will have six of them lined up for a unique fundraising experience featuring Cabernet Sauvignon by famed Quilceda Creek Vintners. The affable Champoux playfully yet appropriately refers to it as a “600-point tasting.” Champoux has donated single bottles of the 2002, 2003, 2005, … [Read more...] about Paul Champoux to stage tasting of 100-point wines by Quilceda Creek
Coyote Canyon Winery 2020 Coyote Canyon Vineyard Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills $36
For the second time in four years, this Prosser, Wash., winery with more than 1,300 acres of vines has produced one of the top Merlots of the Platinum Awards. It’s made deliciously approachable by Justin Michaud, filling the nose and tickling the tongue with blackberry compote and light toast, forest floor bramble and pipe tobacco. Cherry-skin tannins and a complex finish … [Read more...] about Coyote Canyon Winery 2020 Coyote Canyon Vineyard Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills $36
Alexandria Nicole Cellars 2022 Destiny Ridge Vineyard Shepherds Mark, Horse Heaven Hills $28
Once again, from the cellar of Jarrod Boyle comes perhaps the Northwest’s most delicious expression of a white Rhône blend, an argument made because this is the fourth time it has gone Platinum. Here, the blend named for symbols left on rocks in the Horse Heavens by early sheepherders is Roussanne (55%), Marsanne (30%) and Viognier. Hints of white peach and honeydew melon made … [Read more...] about Alexandria Nicole Cellars 2022 Destiny Ridge Vineyard Shepherds Mark, Horse Heaven Hills $28
H/H Estates 2020 Coyote Canyon Vineyard Reserve Bozak Red Wine, Horse Heaven Hills $59
The Andrews family vineyard has more than 40 award-winning wineries as customers in three states, but they hold back some of their best grapes for patriarch Mike Andrews and his reserve label that Justin Michaud blends with a Meritage approach surrounding Cabernet Sauvignon. And this Platinum comes on the heels of a Platinum for the 2019 vintage. Classic aromas of Bing cherry, … [Read more...] about H/H Estates 2020 Coyote Canyon Vineyard Reserve Bozak Red Wine, Horse Heaven Hills $59