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PRESENTS
Boudreaux Cellars
June 2013
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Greetings!
"These wines are unlike any others I have encountered, and the best of them are unforgettably good."
David Schildknecht, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Dec 2012
I am so excited to announce that Rogers & Company has added a winery from Washington State to our catalogue, Boudreaux Cellars.
Owner and winemaker Rob Newsom is an engaging, easygoing character with a gentle Louisiana drawl, who found himself in Washington fishing, rock-climbing and hanging out with fellow fisherman Gary Figgins of the famed Leonetti Cellar. A few shared bottles and a lot of shared knowledge and Rob found himself to be a vintner. His first vintage of half Merlot and half Cabernet Sauvignon was fermented over a propane stove on his porch and cellared in a 30 gallon barrel under his house. In 2007 Rob was named "Best New Winemaker" and Boudreaux Cellars "Best New Winery" by Seattle Magazine.
The wines offered here all come in cases of six. The prices are best estimates at this time. We're accepting reservations and the wines should arrive sometime in August, ready for enjoying in the fall.
If you would like a whole catalogue of our offerings, please visit us on the web at Rogers & Company. All my best,
Chris.
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Boudreaux Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
6 bottles per case, estimated $79.95 per bottle
ETA August 2013
This is quite simply one of the most exciting and memorable Cabernets I've had in some time. Rob Newsom's vineyard sources include Bacchus, Champoux and Klipsun among others. As rich and savoury as any Cabernet from Napa Valley with that characteristic scent of a distant conifer forest, this wine totally over-delivers. When we first tasted this wine in our office, I recorked it and reopened it opened over six hours later. The wine just kept giving more and more, blossoming and billowing aromas and changing sip to sip.
If you have five minutes, watch Wine Library T.V.'s Gary Vaynerchuk gush over the 2003 here. Scroll ahead to the 9 minute mark (third dot from the left) and just wait out the "snowsuit and twizzlers" comments.
"This is a Bordeaux-style blend, principally Cabernet Sauvignon, with small amounts of Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. It's stylish and firm, based upon a solid cassis note. The extended barrel aging - 32 months in French oak-brings on seductive flavours of brown sugar, molasses and maple syrup, with touches of espresso and dark chocolate. The structure remains tight and polished, with excellent balance."
94 points, Wine Enthusiast, Sept 2012 "The opaque purple-coloured 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (92%) is an 8 vineyard blend containing small amounts of Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Cabernet Franc. It was aged for 32 months in French oak. Enticing aromas of Asian spices, rose petal, incense, pencil lead, and assorted black fruits lead to a medium-bodied, densely packed, layered Cabernet with outstanding volume and concentration. It mandates 5-6 years of cellaring and will be at its best from 2016 to 2027."
93 points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Oct 2011
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Boudreaux Cellars
"Reserve" Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
6 bottles per case, estimated $119.95 per bottle
ETA August 2013
In April I attended "Taste Washington", the largest single-region wine and food festival in the U.S. Most wineries present a wide range of their wines and the offerings are spectacular. Boudreaux Cellars presented only the Reserve Cabernet 2007 and the line-up to the table never subsided. These are truly paradigm shifting wines, much in the same way as Quilceda Creek, Leonetti and Cayuse which have shown year over year that Washington's best reds are on par with Napa and Sonoma as well as Bordeaux and Hermitage.
"Much in the style of Leonetti Cabernet, with the richness of Napa Valley fruit, this deeply satisfying, super-ripe wine is 100% varietal. Notes of cassis, fig and a hint of prune are swathed in deeper flavours of espresso and dark chocolate.
95 points and "Cellar Selection", Wine Enthusiast, Sept 2012
"Newsom's 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Champoux & Loess Vineyards (25% from the latter, owned and farmed by the Figgins family of Leonetti fame) spent three full years in barrique without any harm being done thereby (on the contrary, it would seem), and qualifies in his book as "my favorite wine I've ever made." Brace yourself for a really high-toned blast of berry distillates and smoky barrel extraction that put me faintly in mind of really good Armagnac. Along with that come creme de cassis, cherry jam, vanilla, mocha, toasted pecan, molasses and sealing wax, a shifting subset of which seem to weave in and out of the broad lane lines set out by firm underlying tannins. You want sweet fruit and oak? This way! (Maybe there's even a gram of residual sugar in there; Newsom confesses, "it was a grizzly bear to get through fermentation.") But this never turns saccharine or superfluously sweet. It exhibits amazing resonance and viscous cling yet (at 13.9%) with no hint of heat or alcoholic roughness, leading to a finish of fruit essences and confections that positively soars with ester-rich, near-spirituous yet not in the least raw intensity. This should be spellbinding to follow over at least the better part of the next decade. That said, while wines that spend a very long time in barrel can often display amazing stability in bottle, performances that walk on the wild side of volatility like this one might conceivably go dark on you before you expected it."
94 points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Dec 2012
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Boudreaux Cellars Merlot 2007
6 bottles per case, estimated $59.95 per bottle
ETA August 2013
Washington Merlots seem to walk a fine line between the suppleness and satiny character of Pomerol and the dark, conifer forest notes of Washington Cabernets. It's a fabulous style of wine that the state initially built its reputation on, though Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are making headway now.
Perhaps it's the clays laid down by the Columbia River or the wind swept desert environment of eastern Washington that provides the acid/sugar balance, but whatever, Washington Merlot is certainly a category of very high quality and every cellar should have at least one great example. This is a great one for drinking now and for the next 2-3 years.
"This has a lovely entry that explodes with scents of toasted almond and espresso. The black cherry and sour plum flavours command your attention, with texture and balance throughout. Drink soon."
91 points, Wine Enthusiast, Sept 2012
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Chris McLean
416 961 2294 x 29
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