June Avalon Wine Club Wines
This month the Reserve Pinot Club features our Winery of the Year for 2010 – Arterberry Maresh.
Big Reds Club members get a massive style Red Blend and a Mourvedre from a hot new winery – it’s going to be one of Walla Walla’s most sought after – you’ll try it before the whole world finds out.
New Discoveries Club has my favorite go-to summer white and one of Oregon’s best bargain Pinots.
Also in this month’s newsletter –
"It’s the Season for Barbeque! – The Ten Commandments of Grilling"
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Arterberry Maresh – J. Albin – Rasa – Guardian Cellars – Rasa – Evesham Wood
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June 2011
Oregon Reserve Pinot noir Club Selections
Arterberry Maresh Maresh Vineyard 09 $55
15% off – Club Price $46.75
Drink now or Cellar 2011-2018
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In the riper 2009 vintage, Jim picked and blended for balance and elegance and there’s no stopping the sexy pie cherry and strawberry scents and flavors. The impeccable Pinot sweetness hangs on from the middle of your palate through a minute past the finish, resonating with dark berry, brown spices, orange essence and a mineral thread. Seamless as always.
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J. Albin Laurel Vineyard Pinot noir 08 $29
15% off – Club Price $24.65
Drink now or Cellar 2011-2014
On the the redder side of the 2008’s, John Albin’s Laurel Vineyard Pinot offers elegant, slightly dusty cherries and raspberries, with a fantastic sweetness/brightness equilibrium. It has a softer, more supple texture than many of its peers. Tasted next to a pair of Burgundies (from Mercurey), this made perfect sense.
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HOT News for Big Reds Club members –
Reynvaan’s "The Unnamed" Syrah 08 (shipped to you in January) just received 95 points from Wine Spectator and was listed on their "HOT WINE" page. You were the only customers offered the last bottles of this impossible to get wine after the rating was announced.
June 2011
Northwest Big Reds Club Selections
Rasa Vineyards VOX Populi Mourvedre 09 $45
15% off – Club Price $38.25
Drink now or cellar 2011-2013
This winery is going to be famous, and soon. You definitely want to know about their wines now. Very different, there’s nothing "just another boring Walla Walla red" about them.
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The Vox Populi Mourvedre has aromas and flavors of black raspberry, blackberry, earth, truffle, grilled meats and a hint of flowers. Beautiful structure, complexity, and length. The expansive, rich, slightly grippy texture and brawny flavors scream for dry-aged, marbled artisan Angus beef T-bone or venison sirloin strip medallions.
Guardian Cellars Gun Metal Red 08 $36
15% off – Club Price $30.60
Drink now or Cellar 2011-2014
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Guardian Cellars Gun Metal is a huge red filled with black cherry, marionberry and plum. A hefty blend of Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot and Cabernet Franc, this wine pairs well with food and is delicious on its own. This vintage of Gun Metal was aged 20 months in 70% new French Oak. Another straight shot from Jerry.
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June 2011
Northwest New Discoveries
Club Selections
Arterberry Maresh
Dundee Hills Pinot noir 09 $25
15% off – Club Price $21.21
Drink Now
Amazing value. Let me explain: you take some 1970-planted Maresh Vineyard Pommard and add in more Maresh Pinot, plus fruit from the esteemed Juliard and Winderlea Vineyards and put it in a bottle for under $25. Yep, Jim declassified some of his best fruit because it was a little “bigger” than he likes for the Maresh. Lucky us, since that makes his Dundee Hills packed with flavor, slightly spicy red fruit brimming out of the glass. At 13.8%, I wouldn’t exactly call this “big,” but I would call it smoking good.
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Evesham Wood Blanc du Puits Sec 10 $15
Club Price $12.75
Drink Now
Our go-to white wine when we want the hint of flowers (Gewurztraminer), the smoothness of fresh pear (Pinot gris,) and the racy lilt of a well made white wine. Creamy pear, white flowers, minerals, and a clean uplifting finish. A sipper or a wine to pair with anything from salads to white pizza to roasted chicken. A blend of 85% Pinot Gris and 15% Gewurztraminer.
