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Novelty Hill is a small, independedent winery that is making some absolutely delicious wines in the Columbia Valley. Their model is pretty fool-proof, they’re crafting elegant wines from the finest vineyard in Walla Walla and around Washington State.
Since 1984, winemaker Mike Januik has churned out countless award-winning wines that reflect the unique geography, climate, and soils of Washington’s best Columbia Valley vineyards. While they do source some fruit, their focus is mainly on the estate-grown, single-vineyard wines from Stillwater Creek.
Januik combines old world winemaking with new world innovation at the winery’s state of the art Woodinville facility. It’s specifically designed for small lot, artisan winemaking rather than anything bulky or mass produced. This is cutting edge technology that really helps set the bar so high. His 2020 Novelty Hill is a double 92-point beauty that The Wine Advocate sayid “delivers excellent value for its price point”.
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92 Points,Parker’s Wine Advocate
Enhanced with 3% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2020 Merlot captivates with a fine, focused and pure nose of delicate purple flower aromas alongside hints of plum and black cherry. The medium-bodied and refined palate showcases well-balanced tannins, offering a fresh and complex mouthfeel. This wine delivers excellent value for its price point, ending with a succulent, food-friendly finish.
92 Points, James Suckling
Black plums, cloves, charred bark, sandalwood and bitter chocolate here. Tasty and spicy with a full body and tight-knit tannins. Nicely framed with a firm and tight finish.
At J Vineyards, Nicole is nothing short of a magician, making 30 different skus or more each vintage between her Pinots, Chardonnays, and Sparkling wines. For the vineyard’s flagship Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, up to 100 individual small lots are combined to make this great wine. Somehow, the blend is effortless–a quintessential RRV Pinot that has those soaring aromatics, bright red fruits, clove, and nutmeg spice with perfect balance.
Anne Sery describes her Trousse Chemise Cabernets as an ode to the Left Bank and her winemaking roots. It’s a beautiful and fresh Cabernet with aromas that leap from the glass with of black raspberry, violets, and creme de liquor notes. The mouth gives generous amounts of juicy black fruits at the core with hints of baking spice and a smooth, savory finish. This is a terrific partner for just about anything from hard cheese, to poultry, summer salads, you name it!
WS #4 2019 Wine of the Year, 96 Points, Wine Spectator
2016 was an incredibly special year in Napa Valley. It was essentially the 5th straight vintage of near perfect-conditions and a lot of the big boys produced some of their biggest, most elegant Cabernets to date. Groth’s was still one of the standouts in any group, a deeply concentrated, weighty Cab with sappy, juicy fruit and a carefully intertwined tannic structure. Absolutely gorgeous.
93 Points, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate – 93 Points, Jeb Dunnuck
“Vignon’s 2019 Chateauneuf du Pape delivers even more than I hoped for based on a previous sample. Hints of garrigue, roses, cherries and raspberries appear on the nose, while the palate is full-bodied, silky and long, with an intense, almost briny finish. The assemblage is 50% Grenache, 10% each Mourvèdre and Syrah, plus smaller proportions of seven other permitted varieties, while the élevage includes foudres, demi-muids, concrete and wooden tanks, plus terracotta amphorae.”