2008 Northstar Merlot Columbia Valley

Community Tasting Notes (45) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  11/28/2022 - Gary Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Velvety and well integrated

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  12/6/2018 - rmcnees wrote: 88 Points

  Tonight's tasting was fairly consistent with my last tasting note for this wine which was six years ago back in 2012, when I wrote:
  
  "This 2008 is a bit tight and closed, not as smooth, polished and fruit filled as some earlier vintages of this wine that I remember - perhaps due to its age or period in its aging profile. This is medium to full bodied, with dark inky color, this is a bright, balanced wine with notes of black cherry, tobacco, spice box and nut leading to a long, smoky moderate tannin finish."
  
  https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2018/12/northstar-merlot-2008-for-casual-wine.html

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  9/27/2017 - sdrum Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Still good, but it appears to have lost a bit of the "edge" that it had a couple of years ago.

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  9/1/2017 - luHar1423 Likes this wine: 85 Points

  It was time to open my last two bottles of this delicious Merlot. I still struggle to understand why my North American friends shy away from the Merlot grape - it is a great wine grape and really undervalued in Nappa. One of the best Bordeaux is a 100% Merlot.
  
  The Northstar is a very good Merlot - still lagging some delicious wines from Tuscany or Bordeaux but on a good route of a great Merlot for the New Worlds. Worth to keep a couple of bottles at home.
  
  It tastes like black currant (cassis), grapefruit, raisin, vanilla and chocolate. The body is medium. The wine has satin-like texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity.

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  8/31/2017 - JMFWC Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Night 2 showing black currant and cedar with a hint of graphite on the nose. Palate is well balanced but tannins are still present developing acid in the mouth. Finish holds for a good length. Will evolve a few more years.

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