This week on Beth and Bill’s Grapevine we are featuring three distinctly crisp Washington Wines, distributed by Wanderlust Trading Company and available locally at AJ’s Fine Foods. Try them at Quiessence, too!

2006 Calico Red Columbia Valley - Bergevin Lane Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

The only WA state blend with Zinfandel! Dark berries, spice, minerality, and earth combined with violets, some liquorish and pleasant hints of vanilla and oak marks the beginning of this wine. Fresh young smooth tannins and integrated acidity bind fruit and structure together implying great potential of further complexity development with some extended bottle aging or if preferred now decanting for at least an hour.

Bergevin Lane Vineyards, located in Walla Walla, Washington, vision is to create elegant styled wines that reflect harmony between fruit and oak. These wines are food friendly, fruit-driven, balanced… simply put -wines that you can enjoy for any occasion.

Blend: 36% Merlot; 30% Cabernet Sauvignon; 25% Syrah; 7% Zinfandel; 2% Cabernet Franc

Rated “Best Blends” Nov-Dec 2008 by Northwest Palate Magazine



2006 Syrah – McCrea Cellars

This wine is full of intense dark cherry preserves, the palate is lush and gorgeous. Dark berry, plum, blueberry with some dusty earth, game, dusted with black pepper. Sweet fruit and silky tannins make this a soulful wine.

McCrea Cellars is Washington State's first winery entirely dedicated to Syrah and to Rhône varietal wines. McCrea Cellars has been named one of the Top 100 Wineries of the year by Wine & Spirits Magazine in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008.

Cuvee M 2004, O•S Winery

Classic Klipsun Vineyard, powerful and elegant wine brimming with dark fruit flavors of Kirsch and black cherries, brooding dark fruits giving way to rose petal and violet. Subtle aromas of cloves and cinnamon lead to a silky mouthfeel with muscular tannins and a seamless texture. There is a burst of complex dark fruit flavors with notes of chocolate and plum that carries through to a long savory finish. There is a range of flavors from black currants to black cherries to blackberries and subtle notes of espresso and minerality 70% Merlot, 30 % Cabernet Sauvignon Rated: 90, Wine Spectator 05/31/08 Rated: 90, Wine Advocate 06/30/08 275 cases

Klipsun Vineyard has been rated as one of the Top 10 vineyards in the world by Wine and Spirits Magazine.



These fine wine are available at AJ’s Fine Foods.