by Jenise » Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:01 pm
First bottle of this vintage, made by California's Randy Dunn at Long Shadows winery in Washington with Washington fruit in a fairly hot vintage, we've had. It's quite big and powerful with more stuffing than the 2004, at first very sturdy and primary but over an hour relaxing into a much more agreeable and impressive sort of wine. It's either all or nearly all Cabernet Sauvignon, and it's very Washingtonian with a bit of herbs and green pepper in the ripe blackberry, huckleberry and plum fruit. Good tannins. Some secondary development is just nipping around the edges, and I taste a wine here that should reach it's potential about three years out and hold steady for a couple years after that. Hard to tell, as this is the first vintage and there's no available track record for the fruit. Too, though it was quite balanced and did not taste acidified, it had enough acidity that in a vintage like 03, one has to wonder if that short cut was taken and what effect on longevity it will have--an earlier (2007) reporter on Cellar Tracker thought it surprisingly endowed with same. Anyway, very good wine if you like new world cabs.
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