Vinous

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

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Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Holiday Price Drops, 11/8/2018

  (Two Vintners Legit) Hello friends. Our list members love Morgan Lee. It’s clear from your support of Block Wines, Two Vintners, and Covington Cellars. Well I’m here to tell you: Morgan loves you right back. How do I know? Well, for one thing, he told me so. But if hearsay is not evidence enough, allow me to present something more tangible: a pair of TPU price-gifts, from Morgan straight to our list members. Happy holidays.International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “($30); Primarily Cabernet, this wine has some lesser parts Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Merlot blended in. The wine is sourced from the Discovery, Stone Tree, Pepper Bridge, Dineen, Kiona Vineyards. This inky colored wine opens with a bright bouquet of mocha, cigar box, creme de cassis and black olive. The mid-palate weight is really nice, as is the minerality. Black tea, black olive, coffee grounds and milk chocolate flavors impress. Lithe and downright delicious, this wine will have a long life in the cellar. Drink 2017-2030. 92pts.” This is like the Cabernet version of Two Vintners’ exceptional Columbia Valley Syrah; it’s Morgan’s well-priced, pan-Washington Cab. Check out the all-star list of Cabernet vineyards: 41% Discovery (Horse Heaven Hills), 25% Stonetree (Wahluke Slope), 12% Pepper Bridge (Walla Walla Valley), 5% Dineen (Yakima Valley). Throw in 7% Petit Verdot from Kiona (Red Mountain), as well as 5% splashes of Dineen Cab Franc and Stonetree Merlot. All that classy juice is aged in 70% new French oak; luxury treatment for a $30 wine, and *certainly* for a $20 wine. This clocks in at 14.8% listed alc and jumps out of the glass with prominent Discovery Vineyard notes of graphitic minerality to complement a core of blackcurrant fruit. Notes of cedar, earth, and eucalyptus round out an attractive aromatic profile. The palate is well-balanced across multiple axes: fruit and mineral; richness and structure. With intensity, complexity, and espressoey tannic chew to spare, this could be one of those sneaky twenty-year-wines, and better yet for twenty bucks. Those of us who had kids in 2014 would do well to sock a bottle or two of this away until 2035.