I bought half a case of the 2021 for a ridiculous giveaway price. Turns out to be the best QPR wine in my forty year wine journey. I find this wine interesting due to a recent wine I shared with my wife while dining in DC while on vacation. The wine was a a 2021 Caymus. Nice wine, easy drinking excellent fruit but no real structure or tannins. It was fat and flabby (too young?). Well upon opening this Peju ‘21, nose and flavor nearly identical to the Caymus….but…the Peju had an excellent mouth feel with medium soft tannins, black and blue fruit with a strong cherry backbone with a nice textural finish with some hang time. I don’t usually consume cabs that are less than 5-7 years old but this wine was a remarkably made beauty. Peju will be on my radar going forward and I am confident the remaining five bottles will age and mature well.
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Underwhelmed. Gorgeous color and nose. With intense nose of cherry, blueberry and vanilla. And there it stopped! Forward and overwhelmingly fruity, minimal to non existent tannins, no complexity. Just extremely enjoyable plonk. This might be a wine you might introduce someone who hates red wine because it drinks like fruit juice. Yes, the wine is well made, extremely extracted, beautiful to look at and has great fruit. But it has no shoulders at this time and lacks the muscular frame to bring the wine together. Perhaps with aging it will fill in the missing pieces. All that being said the wine was enjoyable enough with our dinner, but at this price point there are hundreds of better, more complex wines available from Napa.
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Still excellent. Deep ruby/garnet to the rim. Cherry, blackberry, with solid dark fruit, balanced oak and tannins. Spice with light tobacco notes. Medium plus to full bodied. Great Washington state red wine.
2021 Peju Province Winery Cabernet Sauvignon
4/24/2024 - scg Likes this wine: 92 Points
I bought half a case of the 2021 for a ridiculous giveaway price. Turns out to be the best QPR wine in my forty year wine journey. I find this wine interesting due to a recent wine I shared with my wife while dining in DC while on vacation. The wine was a a 2021 Caymus. Nice wine, easy drinking excellent fruit but no real structure or tannins. It was fat and flabby (too young?). Well upon opening this Peju ‘21, nose and flavor nearly identical to the Caymus….but…the Peju had an excellent mouth feel with medium soft tannins, black and blue fruit with a strong cherry backbone with a nice textural finish with some hang time. I don’t usually consume cabs that are less than 5-7 years old but this wine was a remarkably made beauty. Peju will be on my radar going forward and I am confident the remaining five bottles will age and mature well.
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2021 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon
3/4/2024 - scg Likes this wine: 87 Points
Underwhelmed. Gorgeous color and nose. With intense nose of cherry, blueberry and vanilla. And there it stopped! Forward and overwhelmingly fruity, minimal to non existent tannins, no complexity. Just extremely enjoyable plonk. This might be a wine you might introduce someone who hates red wine because it drinks like fruit juice. Yes, the wine is well made, extremely extracted, beautiful to look at and has great fruit. But it has no shoulders at this time and lacks the muscular frame to bring the wine together. Perhaps with aging it will fill in the missing pieces. All that being said the wine was enjoyable enough with our dinner, but at this price point there are hundreds of better, more complex wines available from Napa.
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2014 Andrew Will Champoux Vineyard
2/24/2024 - scg Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still excellent. Deep ruby/garnet to the rim. Cherry, blackberry, with solid dark fruit, balanced oak and tannins. Spice with light tobacco notes. Medium plus to full bodied. Great Washington state red wine.
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