Northstar
Stella Maris Columbia Valley Merlot Blend
Smoky graphite, and after an initial berry melange, became more like a Cornas in a meaty, char-grilled way. Baked grapes feint to dinner rolls, with yeasty centers, then to oceanic beach debris and cut yellow pine. Leaden blueberry, black currants, black cherry, madura wraps, black olive, black gravel, licorice dust, and back to leathery graphite and blueberry. Comes full circle, and it's Washington origins fortunately insured that it did not become a comic rendering of wine like so much of the prevailing candy juice vying for popularity in the candyland pageant.
Smoky graphite, and after an initial berry melange, became more like a Cornas in a meaty, char-grilled way. Baked grapes feint to dinner rolls, with yeasty centers, then to oceanic beach debris and cut yellow pine. Leaden blueberry, black currants, black cherry, madura wraps, black olive, black gravel, licorice dust, and back to leathery graphite and blueberry. Comes full circle, and it's Washington origins fortunately insured that it did not become a comic rendering of wine like so much of the prevailing candy juice vying for popularity in the candyland pageant.
Nov 24th, 2015This wine blew my mind. It was still good after six days opened with just a cork on my kitchen counter.
This wine blew my mind. It was still good after six days opened with just a cork on my kitchen counter.
Jan 30th, 2015Excellent plum and apricot overlay in a light motif wine. Wonderful!
Excellent plum and apricot overlay in a light motif wine. Wonderful!
Sep 2nd, 2016