2016 Involuntary Commitment

JancisRobinson.com

• By Richard Hemming, MW
  6/20/2018, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Andrew Will, Involuntary Commitment Walla Walla Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text.

JebDunnuck.com

• By Jeb Dunnuck
  Latest Releases from Washington State, 4/5/2018, (See more on JebDunnuck.com...)

  (Involuntary Commitment Columbia Valley Red Wine) Login and sign up and see review text.

JamesSuckling.com

• By James Suckling
  3/16/2018, (See more on JamesSuckling.com...)

  (Involuntary Commitment Columbia Valley, Red, United States) Login and sign up and see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Reoffers, 2/15/2018

  (Involuntary Commitment) Hello friends. We have a six-pack of reoffers today, featuring some of our most popular wines offered over the past few months:Originally offered October 8, 2017, the last (and best?) of our five Anniversary Week offers, and a crazy-frequent reorder target ever since. Excerpts from the original: For those of you who, over the years, have been curious about the Andrew Will house style but who weren’t willing to splurge for the white label wines ($50-$80) and didn’t quite jump on the black-label wines ($25-$35), allow me to present a new wine, from Chris and Will Camarda, entirely from Andrew Will vineyards, for less than twenty dollars. It is outrageously good. I was just smiling and shaking my head in disbelief when I was tasting this one with Will Camarda. I try not to pump up the hyperbole too much for our offers, but I’m comfortable hyping this one: it’s run-don’t-walk territory. The reason this wine exists is that Andrew Will ended up with way more fruit than expected in 2016, about 30% over expectations according to Will; especially at their estate Two Blondes, which is where the majority of this wine comes from. And that’s about the limit of what they’re willing to share about the vineyard sourcing, but since we know it’s all Andrew Will-vinified juice, and we know that Andrew Will only works with a small handful of vineyards, we can deduce that it’s greater-than-50% Two Blondes, with the remainder likely filled out by Ciel du Cheval and/or Champoux. For sub-$20. Ridiculous. The blend is 61% Cabernet Franc, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 17% Merlot. Between the preponderance of Two Blondes fruit and the preponderance of Cabernet Franc, you may be asking yourself: does this drink like baby White Label Two Blondes? That motion you see through your computer screen is me nodding in the affirmative. It clocks in at 14.5% listed alc and begins with the clear-as-day Two Blondes Franc aromatic signature, one the San Francisco Chronicle writer Jon Bonne has called “sanguine and pimenton” and which for me is this alluring smoky sweet chile pepper note. So yeah, smoked paprika and smoky peppers to go with raspberry and red cherry fruit. With time and air, Franc’s subtleties of wildflower and watercress came to the fore, auguring a beautiful evolution ahead. The palate is plush, intense, with young-vine generosity and exuberance paired to Andrew Will’s signature elegance and polish. It’s classy as hell, about as good a sub-$20 Washington red as my toddler-addled brain can remember. I recommend going long.

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Anniversary Week 5 of 5: Involuntary, 10/8/2017

  (Involuntary Commitment) Hello friends, and thanks for joining us as Anniversary Week continues! Full Pull launched about eight years ago, on October 5, 2009, and we use the occasion of our anniversary week to blast out some of our most compelling offers of the year. This is the fifth and final of our quintet of Anniversary Week offers. Did we save the best for last? I think an argument could be made. For those of you who, over the years, have been curious about the Andrew Will house style but who weren’t willing to splurge for the white label wines ($50-$80) and didn’t quite jump on the black-label wines ($25-$35), allow me to present a new wine, from Chris and Will Camarda, entirely from Andrew Will vineyards, for less than twenty dollars:Originally offered October 8, 2017, the last (and best?) of our five Anniversary Week offers, and a crazy-frequent reorder target ever since. Excerpts from the original: For those of you who, over the years, have been curious about the Andrew Will house style but who weren’t willing to splurge for the white label wines ($50-$80) and didn’t quite jump on the black-label wines ($25-$35), allow me to present a new wine, from Chris and Will Camarda, entirely from Andrew Will vineyards, for less than twenty dollars. It is outrageously good. I was just smiling and shaking my head in disbelief when I was tasting this one with Will Camarda. I try not to pump up the hyperbole too much for our offers, but I’m comfortable hyping this one: it’s run-don’t-walk territory. The reason this wine exists is that Andrew Will ended up with way more fruit than expected in 2016, about 30% over expectations according to Will; especially at their estate Two Blondes, which is where the majority of this wine comes from. And that’s about the limit of what they’re willing to share about the vineyard sourcing, but since we know it’s all Andrew Will-vinified juice, and we know that Andrew Will only works with a small handful of vineyards, we can deduce that it’s greater-than-50% Two Blondes, with the remainder likely filled out by Ciel du Cheval and/or Champoux. For sub-$20. Ridiculous. The blend is 61% Cabernet Franc, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 17% Merlot. Between the preponderance of Two Blondes fruit and the preponderance of Cabernet Franc, you may be asking yourself: does this drink like baby White Label Two Blondes? That motion you see through your computer screen is me nodding in the affirmative. It clocks in at 14.5% listed alc and begins with the clear-as-day Two Blondes Franc aromatic signature, one the San Francisco Chronicle writer Jon Bonne has called “sanguine and pimenton” and which for me is this alluring smoky sweet chile pepper note. So yeah, smoked paprika and smoky peppers to go with raspberry and red cherry fruit. With time and air, Franc’s subtleties of wildflower and watercress came to the fore, auguring a beautiful evolution ahead. The palate is plush, intense, with young-vine generosity and exuberance paired to Andrew Will’s signature elegance and polish. It’s classy as hell, about as good a sub-$20 Washington red as my toddler-addled brain can remember. I recommend going long.