JebDunnuck.com

• By Jeb Dunnuck
  Latest Releases from Washington State, 4/5/2018 (link)

  (Betz Family Winery Clos de Betz) Subscribe to see review text.

JamesSuckling.com

• By James Suckling
  3/16/2018 (link)

  (Betz Columbia Valley Clos de Betz, Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text.

Vinous

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Washington: Various Shades of Hot (Oct 2017), 10/1/2017 (link)

  (Betz Family Winery Red Wine Clos De Betz Washington Red) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Betz, 3/25/2018

  (Betz Family Winery Clos de Betz) Hello friends. The opportunity to work with Betz Family Winery is one of the great professional thrills that comes with a career in Washington wine. It’s a widely held belief: Bob Betz’s face would be chiseled on a Mt. Rushmore of Washington winemakers. He is one of the very few Masters of Wine to ever make wine in Washington, 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 to 3500 cases total, but acclaim has grown more quickly than that, 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, and list tenure, among other factors.) Just like every spring, these are painfully limited wines, but trust that we’ll do our best to source as much as possible for our list members.Our most limited wine of the day, at just 24 bottles when we started (updated availability). The ’15 is a blend of 75% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Petit Verdot, raised in 100% new French oak. Year after year, Clos is a glorious wine, an exemplar of the power and grace of Washington Merlot. Wine Advocate: Copyrighted material withheld.