Community Tasting Notes 45

• Tomportwine Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 12, 2024 - Still good, in balance, maybe a bit softened. Good red and prune fruit, controlled. Low medium acidity, not much minerality, moderate tannins. Pleasant tasty merlot.

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• puffinscellar wrote: 91 points

  March 7, 2023 - I consumed all but one bottle from a case of this some years ago and enjoyed it, and saved one to see how it goes… opened it tonight concerned it may be past its prime, but it is showing just beautifully, if anything I like this even more with fourteen years on it. The blueberries and boysenberries have dried and show a delicious withered fruit character, the vanilla has faded letting the fruit shine through, and the tannins are still there and quite firm, reminding me of cocoa for their pure astringency and roasted character but integrated nicely with the fruit. Bay leaf still shines as does a dusty dried mint character. Wonderful complexity, this wine was a steal I’ll miss it.

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• Tomportwine Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 19, 2022 - full body dense merlot, hasn't lost a step at 13 yrs. nice restrained red and black fruit, hint of anise, a little wet stone. Softened tannins, and delicious. More power and better balance than the Napa cab we had at the same meal...

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• aruddy Likes this wine:

  May 2, 2022 - Drinking well, some secondary development

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• Tomportwine Likes this wine: 91 points

  October 26, 2021 - Robust, full flavored merlot. Dark berry, fig, chocolate, earth. nice velvet tannins, medium acidity.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Northstar
• Varietal Merlot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Columbia Valley
• UPC Code 088586000256

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• In Cellars 214 (25%)
• Consumed 637 (75%)

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