Our 2009 Columbia Valley Riesling offers our trademark heady aromatics of tangerine, apricots, ripe pineapple and savory spices. White peach, sweet pear and Honeydew melon flavors along with a subtle minerality are followed by a firm acidity that balances the wine against the residual sugar.
Sweet ripe fruits with vanilla oak leap out of the glass introducing this delicious Cabernet. Full bodied and explosive, the wine has the purity of fruit expressive of the hot vintage. The smooth and generous palate shows off the rich fruit of the Columbia Valley. Long lasting flavors in gentle tannins and freshening acidity complete our Cabernet. Clear dark ruby color and abundant fragrances of ripe dark Cabernet fruit invite you to enjoy this young muscular wine. Blended with Malbec and Syrah from old and new vineyards we love, the Cabernet shines with fruit and acidity to last decades of enjoyment.
An early ripening harvest, 2014 fruit from our vineyards yielded record color and tannin. Our vintage portfolio carries a volume and weight that matched our house style of rich and smooth age-worthy reds. Spring broke buds and flowered early. Summer temperatures were hotter than average with many July and August days over 100F. Verasion was early under good conditions, together hallmarks of great vintages. Our familiar old vine blocks had fruit shaded with healthy canopies balancing acidity and sugar ripeness while keeping fruit from sunburn. By October, the vintage was record breaking in total heat units and cool picking weather was welcome.