1997 Seven Hills Winery Merlot Klipsun Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 92 points

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  2/18/2020 - Jamesgold Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Big vibrant fruit with all the hard edges smoothed out. Very cool to see what a WA wine can taste like 23 years past vintage. Solid now but still probably has a number of years left.

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  12/16/2009 - Bunch wrote: 89 Points

  Nose: very intense blueberry, forest floor, black cherry, fruit pie and pine notes. Rather sexy. Palate: balanced tannins, not super ripe, a bit watery on the mid palate, but otherwise nice aftertaste and the bottle in general showing well. 30 min: intense blueberry perfume, darkens up, chocolate on top. 1 hour: The oak becomes more and more pronounced over a couple of hours, also to an extent, where it is a bit too much. Tannins a bit more focused. 2 hours: Oak and sweetness too pronounced. Probably peaking now (but maybe even more 2 years ago) but should drink well over the next 3 years.

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  6/23/2004 - Shiraziste wrote: 80 Points

  Crap!!! !
  Stemmy, bitter green bell pepper, flattening fruit, astringent acid.......soooo sad for me . I had bought 4 of these on release and drank 3 over the first couple of years in cellar, however it has been at least 3 years since I last visited it and boy did it turn into a sucker.

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