"Light red-fruit flavors are spcied 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 - PG"

Wine Enthusiast (July 2012), 90 pts + Cellar Selection

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"Supple, focused and distinctive for its exotic spice and guava overtones around a core of cherry and green olive flavors, persisting easily on the long, expressive finish. Drink now through 2019.-H.S"

Wine Spectator (Insider, October 17th 2012), 92 pts

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"(13.9% alcohol; a 67/33 blend of merlot and cabernet franc): Bright, full medium red. Complex aromas of musky red berries, plum, truffle, game, smoke, flint and leather, with some enticing high notes of flowers and spice providing lift. Concentrated and juicy, with an almost glyceral texture but an uncanny light touch to the flavors of red berries and spices. Very complex and subtle Washington blend. Finishes long and smooth, with savory red fruit and cinnamon flavors, a captivating hint of rose petal, and fine-grained, ripe tannins. - Stephen Tanzer"
- Vinous (November 2013), 91 pts

Go To Buty Merlot Cabernet Franc Conner Lee Vineyard Columbia Valley

"The 2011 Merlot Cabernet Franc Conner Lee Vineyard (labeled simply “Conner Lee Vineyard”) is a blend of 67% Merlot and 33% Cabernet Franc that spent 15 months in one-third new French oak. Semi-opaque purple in color, it offers up an energetic profile with blackberry, tobacco, underbrush, pepper and floral nuances leading to a medium-bodied, elegant and deftly textured palate that has juicy acidity, good balance and a clean finish. Vibrant and perfumed, it is already approachable and delicious, yet should continue to impress for 7-8 years, possibly upwards of a decade. Drink now-2020. - Jeb Dunnuck"
- The Wine Advocate (Issue #207, June 2013), 91 pts

Go To Buty Merlot Cabernet Franc Conner Lee Vineyard Columbia Valley