2006 Trust Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon:  

The warm growing days of the Horse Heaven Hills (Phinney Hills and Champoux Vineyards) and the Columbia Basin (Bacchus) provide the bulk of Cabernet for this bottle. A little Walla Walla off the "rocks" (Kelley) provides some mid-palate lushness and the whole blend is softened with 20% Merlot from the very cool Conner Lee Vineyard on the Wahluke Slope.  Lush dark berries, plum, and minerality race through this well integrated wine.

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Expression 44 is in the White House

10/19/2009 12:00:00 AM :
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Very exciting news for proprietors Bill Hill and Dick Wollack, their Expression 44 Eola-Amity Pinot Noir was personally taken by President Obama back to the White House.

 

This pinot noir delivers both on terroir and complexity.  It has complex aromas and flavors, minerality and a plush-textured mouthfeel.  Ripe but refined, with a nice beam of black cherry and charred meat flavor coming through a fine veil of tannins, lingering on the finish.  Need we say more?

 


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Submitted photo A vineyard in Oregon’s scenic Willamette Valley is one of four Pacific Coast vineyards from which Expression Wines will be introducing its pinot noir in a program based on the latitude of the source.

A serendipity-do-da inaugural for Expression 44 wine
Thursday, January 15, 2009

It was a big idea that Richard Wollack and Bill Hill, co-principals in Expression Wines, had that suddenly and serendipitously got bigger.

The names of wines the longtime partners produce from four pinot noir vineyards in West Coast appellations own through their Premier Pacific Vineyards company would correspond to the latitudes and longitudes of their vineyard sources. They would be marketed as “Pinot noirs with latitude.” The first of them — Expression 44º from their vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley — was released last month.

It didn’t occur to them that Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th American president would be taking place in the same timeframe — on Tuesday, Jan. 20, to be exact. But it did occur to several of their customers, who suggested the link between the inauguration of a president and the wine.

“We were pleasantly surprised when people excitedly started calling us to buy, saying that this was the perfect wine to serve at their inauguration party,” said Wollack.

Wollack and Hill didn’t waste any time putting the idea to work. And, Voilà! ... now there are parties being planned around the nation, according to Expression Wines, that will “Toast 44 with 44º.”

 


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