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2019 Leonetti Cellar Walla Walla Reserve Red

JD  97   
VN  96   
WA  95   
JS  95   
WS  94   

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August 3, 2025 - $115

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RATINGS

97Jeb Dunnuck

It's similarly inky hued and offers up a great nose of pure cassis and blueberry fruits intermixed with notes of graphite, tobacco, violets, and gravelly earth. It brings full-bodied richness and depth on the palate, with ultra-fine tannins and beautiful overall balance, as well as elegance.

96Vinous / IWC

It is dark and earthy in the glass with smoky grilled herbs, black currants, floral underbrush and hints of clove. However, it’s on the palate where it really shines, with creamy medium-weight textures accelerated by zesty red fruits and sweet spice. A web of grippy tannins lock down hard through the finale, leaving plum and inner tobacco nuances to linger on and on.

95The Wine Advocate

Inviting, rounded aromas of plums, roses, ground clove and fresh coffee. Full-bodied with fine chewy tannins. Cozy, plush fruit with great depth and intensity. Wonderfully balanced and deep. Subtle notes of nutmeg and sweet paprika mix with thyme and charred rosemary.

95James Suckling

Inviting, rounded aromas of plums, roses, ground clove and fresh coffee. Full-bodied with fine chewy tannins. Cozy, plush fruit with great depth and intensity. Wonderfully balanced and deep. Subtle notes of nutmeg and sweet paprika mix with thyme and charred rosemary.

94Wine Spectator

Precision meets torque with this deeply structured red, which is intense with black currant, olive, clove and other dusky spices.

PRODUCER

Leonetti Cellar

Leonetti Cellar was the first winery in Washington State to produce wines that earned acclaim from out-of-state collectors. Founded in 1977 by Gary Figgins, who still runs the winery with his wife and son, the Walla Walla Valley winery today includes 214 acres of vineyards planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese, Petit Verdot and Malbec. Though Figgins had no formal training in winemaking when he and his wife started making wine in the 1970s, Figgins comes from a family of Italian immigrants who homesteaded in the Walla Walla Valley in the early 20th century. His grandparents served him diluted wine when he was a child, and his interest in winemaking was piqued in the 1970s when he visited Napa Valley. Leonetti’s signature wines are big, lush Cabs and Merlots and Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that “no one on earth makes Cabernets and Merlots with quite the same panache as Gary Figgins…They are sexy, lush and boisterous.”

REGION

United States, Washington, Walla Walla Valley

Walla Walla Valley AVA likes to call itself the Napa Valley of Washington, and given the concentration of well-reviewed wineries in the appellation, the comparison is understandable. The Walla Walla appellation is comprised of 340,000 acres, of which 1,200 acres are vineyards. Walla Walla is located in the southeastern corner of Washington and it extends slightly into northeastern Oregon. It is named after the Walla Walla River Valley, and the city of Walla Walla is the commercial center of Washington’s wine industry. The city was founded in the 1840s by the Hudson’s Bay Company as a trading post, but as early as the 1850s farmers were planting grapes for winemaking. Prohibition shuttered winemaking in the early 20th century, but a winemaking renaissance started in the 1970s when Leonetti Cellars, still one of the state’s most acclaimed wineries, started producing acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon. Walla Walla’s AVA status was awarded in 1984 and today there are more than 100 wineries. Cabernet Sauvignon is the most frequently planted grape, followed by Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Sangiovese Chardonnay and Viognier.

TYPE

Red Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

VINTAGE

2019 Leonetti Cellar Walla Walla Reserve Red

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