Happy Sunday! It was another cold and rainy day here in the Midwest, sometimes I forget how we apparently skip spring and go right from winter to summer. In any case, this is a good time to open up a nice bottle of wine to enjoy with my Sunday dinner, and this time it's a selection from a recent wine club shipment from the Bledsoe Family Winery, the 2020 Walla Walla Cabernet Sauvignon! This wine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (78%), Merlot (9%), Malbec (7%) and Petit Verdot (6%) from six different vineyards in the Walla Walla AVA of Washington. So, let's see how this wine is tasting!
The wine is a deep, inky black at the center with bright garnet along the edges, just as you might expect from a big Cabernet. A gentle swirl of the glass reveals aromas of lavender, blackberry and currant with just some hints of minerality. Take a sip and you're treated to a rush of ripe dark fruit, blackberry, currant and plum that transition easily to some earthy notes of graphite and basalt midpalate. The tannins are velvety smooth, providing for a luxuriously long dry finish that lingers effortlessly for a minute or more.
Overall, I would rate this wine a solid 9, as I think this is the best vintage yet from the Bledsoe Family Winery (even better than the Flying B wines of 2015, 2016 and 2017 or the Bledsoe Family Vintages of 2018 or 2019!). This wine would pair well with a range of dishes, from grilled steaks and chops, to Yankee pot roast and Sunday lasagna! Tonight I am enjoying this wine with a pan seared ribeye basted with butter and rosemary, along with some asparagus with hollandaise. Cheers!
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