Cadaretta, Merlot, Columbia Valley 2006

Deep red.

Vinturi - raspberry, slight shoe polish, oak toast/earth. Attractive, suave.

Ditto in the mouth, lean, but has nice depth of flavor and brightness. Grows on you. Nothing massive about this. Refined and lifted in the final analysis, with Tanzer's "sneaky length".

$40 14.9% alcohol listed