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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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2006 Audelssa Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon - 99pts
10/27/2009 12:00:00 AM :
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WHY 99PTS? Captured
the rockiness of the mountain vineyard and the redwood brush on all
sides of it. Natural aging potential based on mineral components
rather than simple oak tannins or unbalanced acids. This wine tells
it’s own, complete story. Nothing could be done to the winemaking or
the vineyard to make this wine better. Loaded with character,
structure, terroir, balance, savage power, and an ageable refinement.
All winemaking choices fit and support the vineyard fruit exactly
without getting in the way of it’s terroir.
Overall- A
top American Cabernet from one of the western hemisphere’s absolute
best vineyard sites. Stately, structured and terroir driven with
rigorous, intense dark fruit, mineral and chocolate flavors. The
winemaking of Erich Bradley is again spot on with perfect oak
management, balanced, mature phenol flavors and perfect cap extraction
and maceration while supporting and showcasing the terroir. The
vineyard is farmed and managed to the absolute highest standards
physically seen. The soil of this vineyard is identical to the soils
of Chateau Leoville las Cases of St. Julien in Bordeaux in lab test.
This wine would make a Bordelaise cry and is easily confused with a
First Growth Bordeaux in the Medoc. With decanting or age this wine
supercedes California’s best potential. Keep giving Erich Bradley
America’s best grapes and he will continue to deliver on some of the
world’s best wines
-Robert O’Maoilriain, Oct 2009
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