Here is 2009 red blend from Chandler Reach. From Yakima Valley and perhaps Yaktown's better gift to us. Good dark fruit plum and date tones with spicy finish that lingers... for about a week. I like the 25% Cab Franc nice touch in the blend. — 9 years ago
Gonna need a lot more of these to reach conference pace — 9 years ago
As spectacular this wine was with its rich tannic structure and the strong black fruit on the opening, I think that this wine needs many more years to reach its prime. — 10 years ago
Fruity, light and fresh — 11 years ago
Under the radar grape! Norton...savage, well, don't know exactly what that means. ;) Try it and you may find out. Enjoy this at Chandler Hill winery in Defiance. — 12 years ago
Very nice, smoky. $58/bottle. Chandler Hill on v-day — 8 years ago
Wonderful wine for the price especially within the reach of any serious wine buyer. — 9 years ago
Beautiful wine, with a fantastic finish. I really believe that, for me personally, this will rate reach a 9.8-10 rating with just a few more years to mellow. — 10 years ago
This wine is very delicious. — 11 years ago
This is seriously good. Lovely ripe, rich, red fruit on the nose, with enormous depth and compelling notes of earth and minerals. I could sniff this all night. The palate doesn't quite live up to the nose - just a little closed in, in need of a few more years to reach its peak. Still, with air the texture began to show seductive, velvety notes and superb length. This is good now, but will be excellent when ready. — 8 years ago
How else to warm up for a trade tasting of invigorating Champagne this afternoon? Penetrating Sercial Madeira from the year that brought us the Boy Scouts of America. If wine were merit badges perhaps I'd nearly be an Eagle by now... After this evening's tasting I'll have quite a heavy merit badge sash for Champagne -an obsession that can reach no surfeit -it becomes more fascinating and evermore nuanced. For the moment however I'm awash in crushed kumquats in honey, marmalade, hazelnuts and roast peanuts -all layered among so much more in one of the richest Sercial Madeiras I've tried to date. — 9 years ago
Stayed at the winery (Nov 2015)
Love this wine — 9 years ago
I couldn't wait and had to try one from the new shipment. Solid wine on night one, but pretty incredible on night three. I would recommend waiting a few years to let it reach its real potential. — 10 years ago
Sooooooo fresh. — 11 years ago
O.j. Gilder
Fruity in a good way. Smooth with no aftertaste. Perfect amount of dryness for me — 8 years ago