Red

Buty Merlot-Cabernet Franc (Columbia Valley (WA))

Buty

Columbia Valley (WA) · Columbia Valley · United States

Ficha técnica

Tipo
Red
Uva
Merlot, Cabernet Franc
País
United States
Região
Columbia Valley (WA) · Columbia Valley
Denominação
Columbia Valley
Corpo
medium
Acidez
medium
Tanino
medium
Doçura
dry

Harmonização

carne vermelha assada · carnes de caça · cogumelos · queijos curados · ensopados

Safras avaliadas

  • 201189 pts

    Sourced from the Conner Lee vineyard, this reflects the cool, difficult vintage, with a preponderance of herbal flavors. Cabernet Franc is given to showing an earthy, woodsy character in any event, and here it seems to rule. Highlights of baking spices, from aging 15 months in o…

  • 201090 pts

    Light red-fruit flavors are spiced up beautifully with cinnamon and sweet toast. This is an elegant, peppery wine that's well defined and still showing some youthful sharpness. It will reward additional bottle age and should cellar well for up to a decade.

  • 200994 pts

    Wide open and seductive, this brings together grapes from both Conner Lee (northern Columbia Basin) and Champoux (Horse Heaven Hills). Muscular, ripe and round, the sweet blackberry and cassis fruit is limned with a granite-like minerality. Great concentration and layering—a ber…