Welcome to Northwest-wine.com,the wine buying side of Avalonwine.com. Avalonwine.com is Oregon and Washington wine articles and interviews. Northwest-wine.com is wine reviews, tasting notes, recommended wines, sale wines, and new wine releases.
What Makes Avalon Wine and Northwest-wine.com Different? It's our relationships. Avalon Wine started selling Oregon and Washington wine in 1988 - from many of the wineries we still offer today. We're working with the second generation of some family wineries. For almost a generation, Avalon Wine has represented Oregon and Washington's small, highest rated wineries, many since their first vintage releases.
Northwest-wine.com identifies the future stars of Oregon and Washington wines first. Tasting over 50 wines a week for almost twenty years, Avalon's staff draw from a massive database of notes to locate and offer our customers the very best. Some of the most creative and best value wines from Oregon and Washington come from small indepent wineries - "The Indies". Traveling the backroads from the Willamette Valley to Walla Walla to British Columbia, Northwest-wine.com seek out the wineries you want to know.
So many wines, so little time - how to sort through the dozens of magazine ratings, the long lists of wines recommended by wine magazines and wine "experts". Every wine on this site has been tasted and all members of our tasting panel have agreed to carry it -- and we still manage to keep hundreds of wines on this site.
To make things easier, here are Northwest-wine.com's top ten Northwest wines under $20. All are currently available, and this list updates weekly - so check back often.
Our criteria? Best quality and value available to purchase now. Reliability of the winery - consistent quality from bottle to bottle and vintage to vintage - wines that are ready to drink - and wines that we keep going back to, take home for ourselves, and find memorable.
Abbot's Table 2007 re-defines "crowd-pleaser." It's an every-person wine. The aromas ooze with sweet red and black fruit, highlighted by berry blossoms
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The Barnard Griffin Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon received 93 points from Wine Spectator: "Firm in texture, this is beautifully polished to show off its gorgeous, coffee-accented che
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The Belle Pente Estate Pinot noir 05 expresses the essence of Pinot noir, hiehgtened by a sense of place. Here's the heart and soul of the Pinot noir grape, and it is spendid. The sense of place,
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Gorgeous scents of rose petals and raspberries waft from the glass. The 06 Elton is built around a juicy core of raspberry, wrapped in layers of strawberry, redcurrant, and cherry that will contin
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Possibly the last of the 2002 Oregon Pinots to be released, 2002 was a near perfect vintage, and comparisons are being made between this wine and the world famous 1975 Eyrie Pinot noir that shook u
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Barnard Griffin's Reserve Merlot 05 received 92 points from Wine Spectator: "Ripe and juicy, with a mouthful of cherry and currant fruit at the core, hinting at carpaccio and red beet notes as the
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Owen Roe's Ironbird Cabernet Sauvignon 06 is a big, meaty, masculine wine, dense and chewy, calling out for grilled red meat.
Very limited, only 160 cases made, we have a tiny amt of this Cab
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Andrew Will Champoux Vineyards Red 05 received 94 points from Wine Advocate (Parker) 7/08. They said: "The 2005 Champoux Vineyard is made up of 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot,
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Antica Terra Pinot noir 06 is lovely - subtle floral notes mingle with scents of raspberry jam and a hint of toast. A beautifully ripe and rich palate of fruit unravels, showing succulent black cherr ...read more
Black Cap Pinot noir 06 unfolds over hours and days. Complex and captivating, it begins with pretty red fruit and earth nuances that, with air, open to a spicy display of lush cherry and raspberry
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An ethereal and elegant example of 2006 Pinot noir. Jim's style emphasizes texture, and the Dundee Hills 06 shows its seamless, supple body at first sip. Picked a bit earlier than most 2006 Pinots, ...read more
Liquid candy! This juice is mesmerizing, filled with seductively sweet strawberry-rhubarb pie. Ripe and mouthfilling, but not the tiniest bit cloying, the White Rose adds delicious cherry and candie ...read more
The Belle Pente Yamhill Carlton Pinot noir 06 is made with fruit from the winery's own estate vineyard, located in the Yamhill Carlton AVA. Deceptively light in color, it fills the nose and mouth wit ...read more
Chateau Rollat Sophie 06, primarily Merlot, is one of those full-bodied, under $30 red wines that goes with many dishes or drinks well by itself. Rollat's Sophie is immediately accessible and velv
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Fresh blackberry, boysenberry, black currant and violets waft from the glass. Flavors follow - butterscotch, boysenberry, and fresh earth aromas transition into a heap of dark bramble berry flavors
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An outstanding value from a Ribbon Ridge Estate vineyard, located in one of Oregon's prime growing areas. Lots of hightoned, spicy red fruit greets your nose. The flavors develop from bright raspbe ...read more
The Grochau Des Amis Pinot noir 06 has an impressive, lovely nose of cherry, white pepper, and spice. The cherry notes are complex, ranging from tart pie cherry through the softly flavored Rainier
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Isenhower Cellars Last Straw Red is a blend of all the red grapes that do not go into Isenhower's higher end wines. Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah make up the highest percentage as those grapes make up ...read more
Beaux Freres Pinot noir Ribbon Ridge The Upper Terrace 06
Wine Spectator 94 Points and Wine Spectator "HOT" Wine in Wine Spectator "Insider" for May 7, 2008:
Elegant and refine
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O'Reilly's Pinot noir is the most popular value Oregon Pinot noir we sell. Every year the wine's d
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92 points Wine Spectator! "Lithe in texture, with refined tannins, wrapping around a glowing core of raspberry, cherry and cinnamon flavors, drifting through the finish as if unmoored from the cris
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The Pacific Northwest offers values like no where else. We offer the rare and authentic ice wines, made from frozen grapes picked off the vines on a cold morning. We also offer ice-style wines mad
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Lumos's new reserve wine, from organic grapes Made by Temperance Hill vineyard manager Dai Crisp. A big, forward wine loaded with black currant and dark berries. ...read more
90 points from Tanzer: "This wine achieves the balanced spectrum of color, aroma, taste, structure, mouthfeel, and texture that we were after. Purple gar
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Four Heathens Pinot noir 06 is made by Sineann's Master Winemaker, Peter Rosback, the back of the bottle presents his ruminations on this wine:
"What a long fruity journey. Seems l
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2005 Vintage Tasting Notes
Gorgeously complex, toasty nose with wafts of baking spices and dark berries. Fresh raspberries, blackberries, and a streak of blueberry expand on your tongue.
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The St Innocent Pinot noir Justice Vineyard 06, is made from a vineyard whose fruit impresses with its especially expressive sweet and spicy flavors. A silky, creamy mouth feel, also characteristi
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The St Innocent Zenith Vineyard Pinot noir 06 says "hey, check me out!" The most open and forward of the new 06 St. Innocent Pinots, it has huge, expressive aromas of savory sweet bacon and grilled
