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L'Ecole No. 41


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interesting for a merlot.

 

i found this at their site:

 

 

 

 

Merlot

L'Ecole No 41 is indisputably best known for Merlot — our principle red variety since 1983! Fermentation control is carried out in a traditional Bordeaux style, with small lot fermentations punched down by hand for optimal color and flavor extraction. When the fermentation is completed, the must is gravity fed into the press. The wine is gently racked into a combination of new and older French and American oak barrels and aged for 18 months. With rich black cherry and berry fruit flavors in balance with the tannins, we traditionally bottle this wine unfined and unfiltered. We produce two merlots: Columbia Valley Merlot (first vintage 1983) and Seven Hills Vineyard Merlot (first vintage 1993). Walla Walla Valley Merlot (first vintage 1998, last vintage 2001).

 

and someone reviewed as such:

This wine is thick red and deep in color. It is unfined and unfiltered and has some body and some lean muscle to show. Great oaky, cherry aromas arise and they assert some strength and grip. The grapes for this wine come from three vineyards up there in the Walla Walla Valley, half from the Seven Hills vineyard and the other half split from the Forgotten Hills vineyard and the Pepper Bridge vineyard. Cherry, plump dark berry, and plum oooooze into your mouth and the softness is there all around your tongue. It is potent, has grip, but also some real softness. Try it and you will see. It is way too easy to knock back, I could get in trouble with this wine, but I would have fun. The cherry is heavy, the dark berry is just plain old succulent and the plum gives a lil’ bit of tightness but really gives into the others and shows seductive character.

 

The rich flavors end in a damn good mix of mild chocolate, leather and cinnamon spice that all play their part in a silky end to a really awesome bottle of juice. Yes, you could live on this for about a month if necessary. Walla Walla seems like it is the place to be right now and since L’Ecole has been there since ‘83, we have to give them their props in knowing what not many did back then; Walla Walla Valley has potential to make some of the best wine in the west. Oh yea, Martin Clubb has something to do with it also. Now that we all know this, L’Ecole still hits us hard with winners year after year. Get used to that lil’ cute school house on the label, drawn by the cute little 9 year old kid “Ryan”, about 20 years ago. Then open a bottle and don’t feel guilty when you say “@#*&, this is good”. We all do

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interesting for a merlot.

 

i found this at their site:

 

 

Merlot

L'Ecole No 41 is indisputably best known for Merlot — our principle red variety since 1983! Fermentation control is carried out in a traditional Bordeaux style, with small lot fermentations punched down by hand for optimal color and flavor extraction. When the fermentation is completed, the must is gravity fed into the press. The wine is gently racked into a combination of new and older French and American oak barrels and aged for 18 months. With rich black cherry and berry fruit flavors in balance with the tannins, we traditionally bottle this wine unfined and unfiltered. We produce two merlots: Columbia Valley Merlot (first vintage 1983) and Seven Hills Vineyard Merlot (first vintage 1993). Walla Walla Valley Merlot (first vintage 1998, last vintage 2001).

 

and someone reviewed as such:

This wine is thick red and deep in color. It is unfined and unfiltered and has some body and some lean muscle to show. Great oaky, cherry aromas arise and they assert some strength and grip. The grapes for this wine come from three vineyards up there in the Walla Walla Valley, half from the Seven Hills vineyard and the other half split from the Forgotten Hills vineyard and the Pepper Bridge vineyard. Cherry, plump dark berry, and plum oooooze into your mouth and the softness is there all around your tongue. It is potent, has grip, but also some real softness. Try it and you will see. It is way too easy to knock back, I could get in trouble with this wine, but I would have fun. The cherry is heavy, the dark berry is just plain old succulent and the plum gives a lil’ bit of tightness but really gives into the others and shows seductive character.

 

The rich flavors end in a damn good mix of mild chocolate, leather and cinnamon spice that all play their part in a silky end to a really awesome bottle of juice. Yes, you could live on this for about a month if necessary. Walla Walla seems like it is the place to be right now and since L’Ecole has been there since ‘83, we have to give them their props in knowing what not many did back then; Walla Walla Valley has potential to make some of the best wine in the west. Oh yea, Martin Clubb has something to do with it also. Now that we all know this, L’Ecole still hits us hard with winners year after year. Get used to that lil’ cute school house on the label, drawn by the cute little 9 year old kid “Ryan”, about 20 years ago. Then open a bottle and don’t feel guilty when you say “@#*&, this is good”. We all do

 

 

I'd say that they're really best known for their blends and not their varietals. Its a decent winery getting their grapes from the same vineyards as other wineries like Leonetti, QC, etc. The tasting room is in an old school house which they are named for. They are right next door to Woodward Canyon which makes some great cabs.

 

I was there last year during my annual February trip to Red Mt & Walla Walla but I can't remember the Merlot.

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