Happy Sunday! It's been raining all day, with temperatures in the 40s, so I decided to make some butternut squash soup today, which turned out well. And now I'm ready for a nice Sunday dinner and a glass of good wine. Tonight I've opened a bottle of a recent wine club shipment from the Bledsoe Family Winery, the 2019 Walla Walla Cabernet Sauvignon. This wine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (75%), Merlot (13%), Malbec (11%) and Cabernet Franc (1%) from four different vineyards in the Walla Walla AVA of Washington. So, let's see how this wine is tasting.
The wine is an inky black at the center with bright ruby along the edges, just as you might expect from a great Cabernet. A quick swirl in the glass reveals aromas of blackberry, cherry with undertones of earthy minerals. The taste is a lovely combination of tart cherry and ripe blackberry up front that transitions easily to some earthy notes of graphite and cedar midpalate. The fine grain tannins are ideal to support the long, velvety dry finish that lingers to your next sip.
Overall, I would rate this wine a solid 9, as it's young and drinking nicely now, but will doubtless improve over the coming decade. This wine is a classic Cabernet that demands to be paired with a big, juicy steak which is fortunate as tonight I am enjoying this wine with a big porterhouse grilled rare along with some grilled leeks, steamed cauliflower and a baked potato. Cheers!
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