JamesSuckling.com

• By James Suckling
  4/22/2019 (link)

  (K Vintners Walla Walla Valley Charlotte, Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text.

JebDunnuck.com

• By Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2016s From Washington State, 4/11/2019 (link)

  (K Vintners Charlotte Red) Subscribe to see review text.

Vinous

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Focus on Washington: The New Normal (Nov 2018), 11/1/2018 (link)

  (K Vintners Red Wine Charlotte Washington Red) Subscribe to see review text.

JebDunnuck.com

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

  (K Vintners Charlotte Rhône Blend Rock Garden Vineyard) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull K, 5/26/2019

  (K Vintners Charlotte) Hello friends. We have small parcels of a trio of rarities from the recent set of K Vintners releases. These offers are notorious for turning into feeding frenzies, and this one – our first of the year – promises to be extra cuckoo given the wines involved and the parcel sizes. I suspect we’ll have to under-allocate here, given the parcel sizes, so a quick reminder of our allocation technique: Our allocations generally favor 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, list tenure, and size of order request, among other factors. Now, onto the wines: This wine is sold out at the winery, and we grabbed the last little bit in Seattle. Max order requests 3 bottles please. This is only the second time we’ve been able to offer Charlotte (the 2012 vintage was the other), which is a dynamite Mourvedre-driven Rhone blend featuring seven different varieties, two of which are white. Here’s the full blend: 42% Mourvédre/28% Syrah/16% Grenache/4% Counoise/4% Cinsault/3% Picpoul/3% Grenache Blanc. It comes from a trio of Walla Walla Valley vineyards: K’s estate Powerline makes up 44%, and the remainder comes from Rockgarden (42%; Buty’s estate in The Rocks District) and River Rock (14%; another Rocks District site). It is done 100% whole cluster, sees 39 days on skins, and then is aged for 26 months in neutral puncheons. Jeb Dunnuck: Copyrighted material withheld.