Price: $35.00

Club Price: $31.50 

Cases Produced: 94

Release Date: February 2009  

Alc.13.9% By Vol.

Blend

100% Malbec

Barrel composition

100% New French Oak

Growing Season

The 2007 growing season was fast and furious.  High temperatures caused our fruit to ripen earlier than usual resulting in wonderfully concentrated flavors.

Vineyards

The fertile soil and terrain of the Phinny Hill Vineyards are unique products of two types of the largest floods that have ever occurred - eruption of the greatest flood basalt lava flows known on earth and a series of catastrophic ice age glacial floods with flows so large that they permanently altered the landscape of Eastern Washington. At Phinny Hill, this combination of geography and geology combines to produce conditions for growing exceptional wine grapes from which many award-winning wines are produced. Fruit from Phinny Hill Vineyard makes up 50% of this wine. We also sourced fruit from Lonesome Spring Ranch in the Yakima Valley AVA for this wine. This exceptional vineyard produces limited quantities of high quality, ripe fruit with balanced acidity. Fruit from Lonesome Spring Ranch makes up the other 50% of this wine.

Tasting Notes

Traditionally known as a rustic version of Merlot, Malbec is inky, intense and packs a punch. Aromas of Violet, mineral, smokey meats and apples fill the glass. The mouth is loaded with raspberry chocolate, green tea, molé sauce and brandy elements. Plums, red pepper flakes and stewed raisin notes are complemented with hazelnut, tobacco and luscious dusty tannins. Its finish haunts you with elements of berry compote and cocoa chocolate tannins that linger on and on.