Community Tasting Notes 45

• Gary Likes this wine: 88 points

  November 28, 2022 - Velvety and well integrated

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• rmcnees wrote: 88 points

  December 6, 2018 - Tonight's tasting was fairly consistent with my last tasting note for this wine which was six years ago back in 2012, when I wrote:
  
  "This 2008 is a bit tight and closed, not as smooth, polished and fruit filled as some earlier vintages of this wine that I remember - perhaps due to its age or period in its aging profile. This is medium to full bodied, with dark inky color, this is a bright, balanced wine with notes of black cherry, tobacco, spice box and nut leading to a long, smoky moderate tannin finish."
  
  https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2018/12/northstar-merlot-2008-for-casual-wine.html

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• sdrum Likes this wine: 89 points

  September 27, 2017 - Still good, but it appears to have lost a bit of the "edge" that it had a couple of years ago.

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• luHar1423 Likes this wine: 85 points

  September 1, 2017 - It was time to open my last two bottles of this delicious Merlot. I still struggle to understand why my North American friends shy away from the Merlot grape - it is a great wine grape and really undervalued in Nappa. One of the best Bordeaux is a 100% Merlot.
  
  The Northstar is a very good Merlot - still lagging some delicious wines from Tuscany or Bordeaux but on a good route of a great Merlot for the New Worlds. Worth to keep a couple of bottles at home.
  
  It tastes like black currant (cassis), grapefruit, raisin, vanilla and chocolate. The body is medium. The wine has satin-like texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity.

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• JMFWC Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 31, 2017 - Night 2 showing black currant and cedar with a hint of graphite on the nose. Palate is well balanced but tannins are still present developing acid in the mouth. Finish holds for a good length. Will evolve a few more years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Northstar
• Varietal Merlot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Columbia Valley
• UPC Codes 088586000256, 088586000263

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• In Cellars 270 (34%)
• Consumed 513 (66%)

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