Mercer Estates Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

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Region

Producer

Vintage
2010

Size
750ML

ABV
14.3%

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Winemaker Notes

The graceful power of this wine greets you on the nose with aromas of ripe blueberries, fresh cracked pepper, leather and clove. The complexity on the nose carries through in the mouth. The velvety tannins are sleek and balanced by a delicate acid frame that leads into a long finish of ripe fruit and notes of toast.

At the winery, the handpicked fruit was destemmed and placed into small fermentors where they were punched down two or three times a day during fermentation to gently extract color and tannin. Once the optimal level of tannin was extracted, the wine was drained and the skins gently pressed. The wine was then racked to barrels to undergo malolactic fermentation and 24 months of aging in French and American oak. Blend: 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Malbec, 6% Petit Verdot

Professional Ratings

  • 90
    Here is a well-built, Bordeaux-style blend based largely upon Cabernet Sauvignon, with 12% Malbec and 6% Petit Verdot filling it out. Firm, dark and muscular, this mixes tart black fruit flavors with streaks of licorice and peppery herbs.
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Mercer was the founding member of Washington’s highest accoladed AVA, Horse Heaven Hills. Their vineyard at one time included, and still adjoins, the source of Washington’s first Parker-rated 100 point wines. Mercer Ranch was homesteaded by the Mercer family in 1886 and was planted to vines in 1972. The family still supplies grapes to some of the state’s leading wine brands, as well as its own Mercer Family Vineyards label, which consistently produces Cabernet Sauvignons rated 90+ by the leading wine critics.

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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.

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