This vintage of White Salmon Chardonnay is right in line with the Devona style. It has a pretty, bright and aromatic nose of white spring blossoms, fresh apple, and a hint of coconut shavings. The mouth is clean and fresh, complex and balanced, and the finish is mouth-coating and long...more

The 2023 vintage of Merlot, might be one of our favorites. They are generous yet elegant, showy with gracefulness, and full of complexity with gentle tannins that provide a pretty frame. The nose of this wine leads with briar, blackberry, and boysenberry, accented with violets, vanilla, and a hint of graham. The mouth is round and luxurious with sweet fruit, that envelops your mouth and lingers ever after...more

The flavor profile of this Champoux Merlot is classic Horse Heaven Hills with deep red characters, such as wild raspberries, dark red cherries, and pomegranate. These bright influences make for a luminous wine, with vibrancy and lift. And we said this about the 2022 vintage, but 2023 amplifies the idea. These luminous red characters combine with exotic floral notes and dark purple fruits like plum and blackberry. The density and complexity of flavors create a wine that is lush and deep and in perfect balance. While we thought the 2022 vintage couldn’t be topped, the 2023 might have done it! For sure...more

Bacchus Vineyard continues to be the pillar of our Bordeaux varieties. Planted in 1972, these old vines go deep. Their roots go deep, the flavors go deep, and the style is like a long velvet glove. Lush flavors of blackberry, Marion berry, and plum lead the way wrapping your palate in rich, round, mouth-coating flavor. Floral notes of lilac meld with just a suggestion of eucalyptus. The vintage of 2021 is one for the ages, as in be sure to put some away. It is perfectly suited too age...more

This Cabernet consistently expresses the aromas and flavors of deep red hinting toward blue characters. Ripe cherries, and ripe red plums are bright influences that make for a luminous wine, with vibrancy and lift, just as with the Merlot from the same vineyard. The fruit is sweet, dense, and mouth-watering. The tannins are fine-grained, not edgy, but prevelant, as with all of the 2021 Cabernets. These will be really fun to follow and enjoy as they age...more

The focus of Heart of the Hill is a flavor profile that leads with slightly red, bright, and floral. Red currant and huckleberry are rounded out by blueberry and bing cherry. The mouthfeel is lush and mouthwatering. This wine has plenty of structure that is filled in with depth and complexity. An overnight on the counter reveals that it blooms with time, a wonderful indicator of aging potential...more               

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 Cabernet blend is a full-bodied, generous wine, with richness and complexity that over delivers quality for its price...more