2022 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley

The vintage of 2022 started with a very cool, wet spring and a surprise snow occurrence in April that set everything back even further. Summer temperatures finally arrived in the third week of June, but the growing season was still a good three weeks behind. Fortunately, the month of October was above average in warmth allowing for the fruit to fully ripen.

To produce this wine, we select from all of our Cabernet lots those barrels that have softer tannins and a more gentle structure. We don’t go outside of our usual vineyard sources to purchase lower-priced fruit to make this wine. Instead, we blend together the barrels that are more approachable earlier in the aging process. The resulting blend combines fruit from the White Bluffs, Horse Heaven Hills, and Red Mountain viticultural areas, all of which are in the greater Columbia Valley AVA.

This is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, with classic Cabernet characters. It is a full-bodied, generous wine, with richness and complexity that over delivers quality for its price. Generally speaking, this wine is sold to our distributors and offered as a wine-by-the-glass selection in restaurants and wine bars.
John Abbott – Winemaker