Price: $22.00/bottle

Club Price: $19.80/bottle 

Release Date: May 1, 2007

Cases Produced: 340

Alc. 14% By Vol.

Blend

80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc, 7% Malbec, 5% Petite Verdot

Climate

Several factors from our desert climate allow us to make our unique wines. With dry conditions we utilized drip irrigation to precisely control the amount of moisture the vines receive, allowing us to control the growth of the vines. In arid regions, such as Eastern Washington, there are great swings between the day and night temperatures. The day-time highs allow our grapes to reach full ripeness while the night-time lows allow the grapes to retain acidity. Between our geology, geography and climate we have the ingredients for producing world class wines.

Vineyards

Our Red table wine gets its grapes from some of the finest vineyards in the Columbia valley. We source our grapes from Lonesome Spring Ranch, Pepper Bridge, Seven Hills West, and Phinny Hill Vineyards. The Columbia Valley has the ideal geology, geography, and climate for growing grapes. 30 thousand years ago during the last ice age, an ice dam broke several times, releasing flood waters, reforming and releasing again. These floods deposited the sandy loam and silt loams that are typical in Washington’s wine growing region.

Vinification

Grapes were hand harvested and sorted so that only the best fruit underwent fermentation. Fermentation was conducted in small lots, then later pressed and transferred to oak barrels to finish fermentation. Our wines were aged in barrel for 17 months before being bottled on March 15^th 2007

Barrel composition

41% New French Oak

14% New American Oak

45% Neutral French Oak

Tasting Notes

Although this is labeled as a “red table wine” it is stylistically more akin to a claret or Bordeaux. Aromas of sweet oak, plums, raspberries, blackberries, pencil shavings, coco powder, caramel and even chocolate milk come wafting out of this wine. This is a very rich wine supported by firm tannins that are well integrated with the wine’s balanced acidity. The sweet oak flavors wrap around layers of spice box, cedar, cassis, blackberry and plum. This is an amazing wine with many years of life ahead of it.