K VINTNERS OVIDE 2009

Description

Wine Advocate: #204 Dec 2012
Review by:David Schildknecht
Rating: 93 POINTS

The K Vintners 2009 Ovide En Cerise represents a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon with 33% Syrah that’s sourced from another of Christophe Baron’s cobbled vineyards south of Walla Walla and named for Charles Smith’s father. Intensely sappy concentrates of ripe, fresh, dark berry; bitter herbs; licorice, and tapenade are inflected with smoky black tea and biting black pepper. For all of its overt density, this is possessed of admirably fine tannins and vibrantly-charged with energy that lasts through a long, tongue-tingling, throat-coating finish. It ought to merit attention for at least a decade.