Boudreaux Cellars
Giant Reds in the Style of Leonetti
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The 2007 Washington Wine Awards published in the April 2007's Seattle Magazine named Boudreaux Cellars the Best New Winery of the year and Rob Newsom as the Best New Winemaker of the year.

A fishing friendship with Leonetti's Gary Figgins led Boudreaux's Rob Newsom not only to a midlife career change, but also to some rarified grape sources and perhaps a tip or two about making wine.

The Boudreaux wines are big, lush, smooth, deeply complex and very collectible. Rob makes tiny amounts of wine at his home in Icicle Creek, using 100% alternative sources of power. Rob and Tamara Newsom have lived "off the grid" for two decades in a log home surrounded by steep, rocky cliffs and within earshot of the Icicle Creek rapids.

Rob Newsom focuses on smooth, deeply complex Cabernet Sauvignon with forays into Merlot, Syrah, Sangiovese, Chardonnay and Semillon. The winery is named in honor of Boudreaux, the infamous Cajun folklore character known for his brilliant sense of humor and his pursuit of, yes sir, high adventure.

Tamara, Rob, and Roux Newsom

Boudreaux Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 04
$37.76/$41.95
Dense, complex, chocolate and violets and black cherries oh my! The Leonetti influence is evident in the wine. Smooth, lush, quite tightly structured and needing decanting if you drink it now, this classic WA Cab will age for 10-14 years. Unusually deft and sophisticated offering from a new winemaker. - Jean

The aromas are pure candied cherries, spices and mixed fruit perfume, wrapped with luscious dark chocolate--lots of it! The flavors are concentrated: rich black and red cherries and cassis with notes of fresh culinary herbs, giving way to more lush fruit and cocoa on the long finish. The texture is full and voluptuous, with powdery tannins. Two words for the Boudreax Cab 2004: well built. The structure and balance are superb, and the wine is built for long-term aging. Decant for near term drinking but plan to give this beauty a little time in the cellar and you'll have one of Washington's gems. - Marcus

Rob, says: " Smooth, luscious, complicated layers of violets, caramel, and chocolate-covered cherries. Call all your friends! A classic Washington cabernet. A fruit bomb from legendary vineyards. The finish of premium French, Hungarian, and Minnesota oak barrels with a bonus of an 1800 gallon French oak tank. (Think long clear sunset seen from the summit of Mount Rainier.) Fruit low-cropped for intensity. Balanced."

Made from these vineyards: Bacchus (Sagemoor Farms), Block 9 Cab Sauv. 40 % Merlot 4%; Champoux, Block 2 Cab Sauv. 11 %; Katherine Leone (Milbrandt), Cab Sauv. 30 %; Wallula, Block 10 Cab Sauv. 10 %; Weinbau (Sagemoor Farms) Block 13 Cab Franc 5%.

Boudreaux Cellars Merlot 04
$37.76/$41.95
The Leonetti influence is clear here as in the Cab, with luscious black fruit, dark chocolate, toast, briary tannins that add complexity, and a long, long finish. Still a bit tight, needs decanting to drink now or cellarable for 6-8 years.

Rob says: "Having lost all of our usual Walla Walla Valley fruit in the 2004 freeze we were challenged to build a merlot which paralleled the 2003 wine. Fortunately two great vineyards stepped up for us. Bacchus, part of the venerable Sagemoor Farms and Desert Hills, the Den Hoed family farm on Snipes Road near Grandview provided us with beautiful merlot grapes. The Bacchus Vineyard Columbia valley fruit is deep, dark and classic. We have some of the best rows in Block 8. Todd Cameron and Kent Waliser, Boudreaux addicts, made sure we got the good stuff. The Desert Hills Block 52 (a good year) was planted in the Yakima Valley in 1987 on the very shallow soils over sandstone. Andy Den Hoed and Brett Calhoun produced fruit for us with bright elegant acidity, a perfect counter-balance for the deep ripeness of the Bacchus fruit. For fifteen months I topped these barrels with syrah just to add a faint hint of cinnamon-pepper to the recipe."

Boudreaux Tasting Case

6 Boudreaux Cabernet Sauvignon 04
6 Boudreaux Merlot 04

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