North by Northwest Cabernet Sauvignon (Walla Walla Valley (WA))

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

País

United States

Região

Walla Walla Valley (WA) · Columbia Valley

Denominação

Walla Walla Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201389 pts

  Herb, cherry, wood spice and vanilla aromas are followed by cherry and blackberry flavors backed by a squeeze of dry tannins. There are good things going on but the oak gets a bit up front.

• 201187 pts

  Seven Hills and Les Collines provide the grapes for this 80-20 Cab-Merlot blend. The cool 2011 vintage was especially noticeable in Walla Walla—here expressed as light strawberry and cranberry fruit, caught in a shell of acid. The wine ultimately turns tannic, with light barrel…

• 200991 pts

  NxNW makes much less of its Walla Walla Cabernet than of its Columbia Valley bottling, though both wear the same price tag. This is the one to find—a deep, dark wine rife with smoke and espresso. Black cherry and cassis fruit—equally dark and quite thrilling—carries the center i…

• 200791 pts

  The best yet from NxNW, this deep, earthy, loamy Cabernet is sourced from Pepper Bridge and Seven Hills—top Walla Walla vineyards. Tight raspberry and huckleberry fruit is coated with dusty chocolate, coffee grounds and a lick of tobacco. Tannins are still a little chalky and un…