2012 Merlot

2012 Merlot

Coyote Canyon

SILVER
Great Northwest Wine, 2016 Cascadia Wine Competition

PLATINUM
Wine Press NW Award, December 2016

This collaboration among winemaker Robert Smasne, Kirkland vintner Robert Delf and grower Mike Andrews is a lovely example of well-made Washington Merlot with its sweet herbs, cassis, red and dark cherry, a pinch of horehound, then delicious plums. It finishes with smooth tannins and a juicy combination of Marionberry and pomegranate. (104 cases, 14.1% alc.)

GOLD
American Wine Society

EXCELLENT
Great Northwest Wine

2012 Merlot

Columbia Valley

OUTSTANDING
Great Northwest Wine

GOLD
American Wine Society

BRONZE
Finger Lakes International Wine Competition

2012 Merlot

Cordon Grove

OUTSTANDING!

Great Northwest Wine

“Gary Grove’s vineyard in Prosser, Wash., has contributed to some of the top wines from acclaimed Walla Walla Vintners, and here the tandem of Robert Delf and Robert Smasne created four barrels’ worth of meritorious Merlot from the Yakima Valley site. The nose offers hints of dark chocolate, plums, Western serviceberry, mincemeat spice and gravel dust. On the pour is a sizable delivery of blackberry and Damson plum, backed by a bold yet balanced structure of blueberry seed tannins and pomegranate acidity.”

SILVER

Hilton Head

SILVER
Savor NW Awards

SILVER
Texsom International (formerly Dallas Morning news)

DOUBLE GOLD

Seattle Wine Awards