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Northstar 2003 Merlot Walla Walla Valley
92 points - Wine Advocate - April 1, 2006
I loved Northstar’s 2003 Merlot Walla Walla Valley (2,500 cases). Containing 12% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Cabernet Franc, this is a medium to full-bodied effort with delightful black cherry, spice, and sage aromas. A sappy, concentrated, seamless wine, it is velvety-textured, intensely flavorful, and lush. Layered with black cherries, blackberries, spices, and raspberries, this is a broad, engaging offering to be drunk over the next 8-9 years.
Northstar 2001 Merlot Walla Walla Valley
4 stars - Decanter Magazine - December 1, 2005
Ripe cherry fruit with herbal, berry and toasty notes, plush texture, hint of chocolate and cocoa in the persistent finish.
Northstar 2002 Merlot Columbia Valley
89 points - “1 puff=Outstanding wine<< a fine example of Merlot” - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine - November 1, 2005
Simply seductive in the nose with loads of ripe cherry fruit generously blanketed in sweet, slightly caramelly oak, this very showy wine does not go wanting for richness. Its frontal, medium-deep flavors are like-minded in their lovely mix of oak and cherries, and, if it tips ever so slightly to softness in balance and dries a touch at the finish, it is quite tame in tannin and looks good to go with only a year or two in the bottle.
Northstar 2002 Merlot Walla Walla Valley
89 points - “1 puff=Outstanding wine<< a fine example of Merlot” - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine - November 1, 2005
Heading out on a decidedly different tack that its rather more polished sibling, this mouthfilling wine goes for ripeness, size and substance instead of finesse. Its black cherry themes are trimmed with touches of jam, and it shows a slight suggestion of dried grapes, but its slow drift to near late-harvest character is interrupted by a fair bit of real fruit. It comes with tannin to spare and it ends with palpable heat, but in the end it wins the nod for its richness and should drink very well with savory hunks of beef.
Northstar 2002 Merlot Columbia Valley
4 stars - “Highly Recommended” - Restaurant Wine - October 1, 2005
Excellent quality for its type, style and price. Among the very best of its type for its price.^"Simple and complex in style, this is a full bodied Merlot, with blueberry, toast, spicy oak, and black licorice aromas/flavors."^