On the nose forest floor, blackberry, boysenberry, mint and baking space. On the palate cherry and raspberry, fresh acidity with silky tannins. Very tasty.
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Rounded, soft m, reasonably complex, fruit forward cab that is just entering its prime. We drank this at a restaurant, and they decanted it. Didn’t much time or air, and was immediately accessible, full, warm. More subtle than a napa cab, a clearly well made example of columbia valley terroir. Pleased.
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(Betz Family Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Pere de Famille) Hello friends. It remains one of my great professional thrills to get to work with the wines of Betz Family Winery. I’ll repeat what I have said before: Bob Betz’s face would doubtless be chiseled on a Mt. Rushmore of Washington winemakers. He is one of only two Masters of Wine making wine in Washington (Billo Naravane of Rasa is the other), having achieved that honor back in 1998. After a 28-year career at Chateau Ste Michelle, he launched his eponymous winery in 1997, crushing 150 cases worth of wine in the Woodinville warehouse district. Since then, production has grown considerably, but the winery’s acclaim has grown even more, forcing the family to close their mailing list in 2008 and establishing them as one of Washington’s cult wineries. Steve and Bridgit Griessel came on board as managing owners in 2011, and the winery is open to its list members on just two weekends each year: once in the fall, for the release of its Rhone portfolio, and once in the spring, for the release of these Bordeaux-styled wines. The challenge, as usual, is allocations. (As a reminder, our allocation scheme favors breadth over depth, so that everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. And our formula for prioritizing allocations includes overall orders, frequency of orders, recency of orders, list tenure, and # of bottles requested, among other factors.) Just like every spring, these are painfully limited wines, but trust that we’ve done our best to source as much as possible for our list members. Pere is always Cabernet dominant, always with a backbone of robust Red Mountain fruit. This year Cab makes up 75% of the blend, the remainder Merlot and Petit Verdot, all aged for 19 months 100% new French oak. Pere is one of Washington’s most age-worthy wines, emerging from its shell at about a decade past vintage and drinking beautifully for years after that. This vintage displays beautiful purity and textural polish to flavors of cassis and plum, mineral and spice. Listed alc is 13.6%, and this conveys such wonderful palate depth and intensity for such moderate weight. Wine Advocate: Copyrighted material withheld. Jeb Dunnuck: Copyrighted material withheld.
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4/7/2024 - gquigs Likes this wine: 92 Points
On the nose forest floor, blackberry, boysenberry, mint and baking space. On the palate cherry and raspberry, fresh acidity with silky tannins. Very tasty.
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11/12/2023 - BrooklynZin Likes this wine: 92 Points
Rounded, soft m, reasonably complex, fruit forward cab that is just entering its prime. We drank this at a restaurant, and they decanted it. Didn’t much time or air, and was immediately accessible, full, warm. More subtle than a napa cab, a clearly well made example of columbia valley terroir. Pleased.
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10/30/2023 - Bobcat 31 Likes this wine: 92 Points
good value enjoyable
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10/27/2023 - Bobcat 31 Likes this wine: 91 Points
very good short decant no heavy tanins
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7/9/2023 - amiller68003@gmail.com Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very nice. Acid burned off after about 90 minutes. Then very pleasant smooth dark fruit. Lite on structure
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