2007 Northstar Merlot Walla Walla Valley

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  12/16/2017 - JasonG Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Dark garnet with a slight brick color in edge. Requires 1-2 hours to open up, but don’t decant - it’ll ruin it. All vanillas gone in rose, instead replaced with forest fruit, cigar box, cedar, flinty compote, and indeed oak. Berry a bit tough to discern, but a bit liked baked fig and cocoa. Taste still bright in acids, nice to taste vanillas and tannins pulled back. Finish is cool but noticeably elevated in mouthfeel and persistence. Drinking near peak. Nothing flabby it sweet, trademark of high quality WW Merlot. You’ll love this, open a bottle if you still have one.

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  7/31/2017 - JMFWC Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Decanted for about an hour prior to drinking. Showed a little leather and spice on the nose but the fruit was late arriving until about an hour in. Palate was pleasant but subdued. Tannins are still present. Will come back in a year.

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  6/24/2017 - JohnSh wrote:

  Hazy notes from a couple of nights ago. The first day, after about 15 minutes this wine was dominated by extreme oak. Not at all pleasant to me. After leaving it in the fridge overnight, the next day the fruit surfaced and the oak had dissipated enough to be quite a nice wine. A Jekylll and Hyde experience for me, so difficult to score - 82 the first night and 90 the next? My only bottle, so I won't see if this wine will ever shed the oak.

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  9/1/2014 - garygailkrivan Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This is still a very solid WS Merlot, well balanced with the tannins really mellowing out, this is very close to arriving at it's peek.

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  3/26/2014 - garygailkrivan Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This one is aging well, soft tannins with great structure and well balanced.

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