Ashley Stephens is the latest in a string of Washington State University graduates to lead the winemaking for Mercer Wine Estates, and this bottling for the family with five decades of growing in Washington’s Horse Heaven Hills ranked as the No. 1 Merlot from the 2023 Platinum Awards. It also ranks among the best values of the judging, with contributions from the Mercer clan's … [Read more...] about Mercer Bros. 2020 Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills $24.99
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Novelty Hill 2016 Stillwater Creek Vineyard Merlot, Columbia Valley, $28
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