Columbia Valley

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This has a lovely nose of juicy blueberry, plum and kirsch, with a cool minerality and well-integrated notes of baking spice. Flavours of black plum, cola and graphite accompany a velvety mouthfeel, good acidity and gentle tannins. This is 100% Merlot, with equal parts from estate vineyards Ferguson and Seven Hills. Winemaker David Rosenthal describes the wine as 50/50 Old World to New. ‘New World fruit, Old World structure’, he says, noting that Seven Hills imparts a ‘softer, rounder, fleshier’ feeling, while basalt-flecked Ferguson – 300 feet higher – offers ‘structure, this acidic tension ... and intense complexity’. The Old World part of the equation: aging in 30% new oak small barrels for 18 months.

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Sauvignon

Merlot

L'Ecole No 41, Estate Merlot, Columbia Valley, Walla Walla Valley, Washington, USA, 2023

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This has a lovely nose of juicy blueberry, plum and kirsch, with a cool minerality and well-integrated notes of baking spice. Fl

Oaked

L'Ecole No 41, Estate Merlot, Walla Walla Valley, Columbia Valley, Washington, USA, 2023

L'Ecole No 41, Estate Merlot, Walla Walla Valley, Columbia Valley, Washington, USA, 2023

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