Sing for your supper and get a bang for your buck? Playing off an old fashioned idiom, For a Song wines doesn’t ask for the first expression but delivers the latter. Using the 19th century phrase “for a song,” meaning to get something for cheap, the winery bottles up single vineyard Washington wines for a fraction of the price tagged by competitors next to it on the shelf. The story begins with the shuttering of Olsen Estates’ winery attempts and Seattle’s Vinum Wine & Spirits Importing & Distributing stepping in to buy the remainder of the Yakima Valley vineyard’s production. Taking winemaker Kyle Johnson with them (with winemakers Stewart Boedecker and Athena Pappas for their Oregon line of wines), Vinum realigned and reconciled the wines into For a Song with the 2009 vintage.
The packaging is brilliant—and what you would expect from a distributor who works with brands from around the globe and their own backyard. The 2012 The Score Red Blend‘s label depicts Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” and is predominantly Merlot (95 percent) with Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah blended in. Smokey and sealed with raspberry, black currants, cocoa and bacon jam, the aromas explode in an inviting manner that will please most palates with the same dark fruits and savory tones. Tannins graze the back as acid tickles in the front, intermixed with lingering berry flavors in the finish.
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