Winemaker Notes
Pair this wine with Cacio e Pepe topped with diced seared pancetta, or any dish with a rich pepper cream sauce.
Blend: 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Syrah, 4% Cabernet Franc, 4% Merlot
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
With small portions of Syrah, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot, this blend overdelivers for the price, serving up notes of coffee-coated cherry, juicy and ripe black currant, and spiced oak that gleam alongside silky tannins.
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In a place where flannel is formalwear and brunch is a competitive sport, Portlandia Wines was born to bottle the free-spirited flavor of the Pacific Northwest. Portlandia isn’t about swirling and pontificating. It’s about sipping while paddleboarding, pouring generously at backyard hangs, and choosing wine that makes you smile before the first glass. With award-winning quality and a “play hard, work later” mantra, we’re on a mission to make wine less precious and more… Portlandia. Call it craft with a wink. A little irreverent, always authentic. That’s Portlandia.
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Washington produces so many exciting wines, and that definitely includes Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. With over 10,000 acres under vine, Cabernet Sauvignon is now the most widely-grown varietal in the state. Terrific examples hail from sub-appellations like Red Mountain, Wahluke Slope, Horse Heaven Hills and Walla Walla Valley. One of the fascinations of these Columbia Valley Cabs is that they so often seem to have one foot in the New World and one in the Old. Representing the former are characteristics like the ripe, forward fruit that results from long sunny days during the growing season (up to two hours longer than in much of California). Old World similarities include an undeniable brightness from acidity, as well as notes of herbs, graphite and a dusty, sometimes gravelly minerality.
Whether you’re looking for a budget bottle for everyday enjoyment, or a stellar, world-class wine with tremendous aging potential, Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon wines can deliver the goods! Among the many fine options are bottles from Columbia Crest, Chateau Ste. Michelle, L’ecole #41, Quilceda Creek and Leonetti.