2017 Owen Roe Red Wine Yakima Valley

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 90 points

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  4/2/2023 - bgdau Likes this wine:

  Well integrated. Paired nicely with gourmet burger.

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  2/4/2023 - Stampeder Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Solid mid priced red blend. Like the fact the Merlot does not taste like it was aged in oak that gives it a dirty flavor. Clean tasting blend.

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  8/15/2022 - theebigjuan Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Really nice wine at an accessible price. Enough dark fruit to be easy drinking and enough body and structure to enjoy with food.

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  3/22/2022 - Josch48 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Opaque dark cherry color indicative of warm climate ripe fruit extraction level, in spite of only 14.1% alcohol. Aroma of sweet dusty fruit mélange with a hint of what bouquet will evolve in the years to come.
  Aggressive medium body mouthfeel with stronger than expected acidity and highly articulate tannins present. The fruit is tightly wrapped (To use a term I remember the presenter at a 1990 Bordeaux tasting use, oh these many years ago, “Inferred Fruit.”) with the larger Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Malbec berries being the more prominent flavors. Strangely, the Cabernet Sauvignon is the sweetest of the cast of Vinifera, and will likely carry much of the responsibility for whatever complexity this wine will exhibit. The wine is highly pleasurable and easily accessible at its present stage, although I would have expected this blend of warm terroir varietals to show with more complexity, as it seems the group is vying for position in the cue rather than showing team spirit and synergistically performing.
  The wine is well made and I will monitor the other bottles, fingers crossed, over the ensuing years.

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  6/26/2021 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  IWFS Jax: a night of Oregon & Washington (Queens Harbour): This was a wine that I was excited for and so I kept it till last. A producer that I have liked in the past esp with some time to air. Sadly this was closed down this evening even though it had been in the bottle and 'airing' for a few hours by the time I got to it. Just very tight. Didn't express much. Perhaps needed a decant? Or needs a bit more time? Not sure.

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