Whole Foods — 11 years ago
A fresh and clean style 15% semillon with pretty white flowers from Bacchus and Dionysus vineyards. A Bright and refreshing style ripe melon fruit with a nice zesty finish nice weight with ripe melon and fig fruit on the tongue. Finish 35+ excellent — 11 years ago
This wine is made by the great Michel Roland and is a blend of 81% merlot 19% Cabernet Sauvignon from weinbau vineyard candy mountain Dionysus and Conner lee vineyard all are warm sites and the Cabernet is from tapteil on red mountain. A very big and seductive bouquet of dark plum and crem de cassis like fruit very rich and ripe with toasty oak spice dried flowers and dark coco very complex and long on the finish. Big and chewy very rich and layered with silky smooth velvety texture with layers of dark chocolate and a very long finish. Finish 50+ wonderful balance and length with a firm hand of acidity — 11 years ago
63 cab 29 mr 8 cf a mix of different vineyards Dionysus red willow Bacchus worked at Delille the first graduate from walla walla school of viticulture. Has a good punt of currant and dark cherry dark chocolate fresh savory herbs. Very big and chewy with lots of dense rich berry fruit dark spice and chocolate berry fruit. Long layered finish. Finish 40+ excellent+. — 11 years ago
This is in collaboration with armin diel at 12.9 this only has a touch of residual bright green apple fruit bringing together the hoarse heaven hills for the minerality and stone fruit, Yakima valley Phil church vineyard for the bright acidity then some sagemoor and Dionysus vineyard fruit white flowers nice complexity here on the nose a nice touch of sweetness on the tongue with a nice dry finish some pretty floral notes. Excellent — 11 years ago
Gayle Hurt
Dionysus grant me the will power to save a few bottles for future years. Black Cherry with really earthy/mineral tones that carry through to the finish. So glad we discovered Soter last visit to Oregon — 11 years ago