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Novelty Hill 2016 Stillwater Creek Vineyard Merlot, Columbia Valley, $28

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It took more than 30 years after the Alberg family purchased these 235 acres of shrub-steppe near the town of Royal City, Wash., before Tom Alberg, Jr., began to transform it into Stillwater Creek Vineyard. A trio of clones populate the nine Merlot blocks that among the 60 blocks managed by Ed Kelly, a plant pathologist from University of California-Davis who took his … [Read more...] about Novelty Hill 2016 Stillwater Creek Vineyard Merlot, Columbia Valley, $28

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