Palace Ballroom, Seattle, WA
Tasted Sunday, July 24, 2011 by timbuk2 with 913 views
Episode 4 of annual event.
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Overall, all wines were very well made and seemed to be able to go a few years. Tanzer suggested we do it again in 5 or 10 years with the same wines. I thought that was a great idea.
2005 Long Shadows Wineries Chester-Kidder 90 Points
USA, Washington, Columbia Valley
Tanzer 2005 WA CABs - flight 1/4 with 05 Cadence Bel Canto and Betzi. This was one of the more unusual wines of the night. Maybe it is the 40% Syrah. I teasing asked Gilles if this is why he makes wine in the US and not France - because in france you could not put this blend together in most places. He was a very pleasant guy, adding more PVerdot to the blend now. He prefers the 04 and the 06 to the '05. This one I'd like to try again and over the entire night because I love Syrah and love Cab, not sure I love them together. Very dark fruit, with loads of tannin and acid and paired better with the food.
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2005 Cadence Bel Canto 90 Points
USA, Washington, Columbia Valley, Red Mountain
Tanzer 2005 WA CABs - flight 1/4 with 05 Chester-Kidder and Betz. Lovely cab franc nose, but a bit lighter in the mid-pallet and loads of acidity on this wine. The only non-cab sauv of the night and really an unfair pairing with the Betz.
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2005 Betz Family Le Parrain 97 Points
USA, Washington, Columbia Valley
Tanzer 2005 WA CABs - flight 1/4 with 05 Chester-Kidder and Cadence Bel Canto. This was drinking wonderfully well. Third time I've had this wine, but it has been a couple of years. Tbe room's wine of the flight and my WOTN. Informally it was WOTN overall as it kept getting mentioned and was the first to go empty after the tasting. Had the sweetest, ripest tanniins I've probably ever tasted. Just beautifully ripe red fruit and exotic spicey notes. Tanzer called it hedonistic and I cannot agree more. Just fabulous. Don't know how it will age because the softer tannins are so atypical to my experience with cab, so I need to make sure I enjoy some of it young.
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