2022 MMXXII Cabernet Sauvignon - Horse Heaven Hills

Winemaker Notes

Our impression of this wine – The 2022 offers ultra fresh aromatics of heady dark cherry, forest floor and cinnamon. On the palate, this wine explodes with loads of ripe blackberry cobbler, cassis, smoked tobacco, and chocolaty herbs present themselves. This a full-bodied, ripe wine that has incredibly polished tannins and a layered, seamless mouthfeel. This wines profile is rich and voluptuous as this Cabernet glides across the palate. 

100% Cabernet Sauvignon - Clone 8

Required Listening – Crosby, Stills, and Nash– Helplessly Helping

Vintage Notes

The vintage began with a cool and wet spring with some late snow events. Some primary bud damage lead to delayed budbreak and bloom. We started the vintage off about a month behind. The cool weather remained through bloom. A number of cultural and environmental factors contributed to a heavy fruit set. The heat finally arrived in late LATE June. Veraison was about 2-3 weeks behind. Catching up a little bit? Well… being the risk takers that we are, it was never a question that we wouldn’t hang the fruit as long as we could stomach. In most vintages, we need to get our fruit off by Halloween to avoid a freeze. In 2022, we had the most beautiful, extended fall that I have ever seen in the Northwest. This allowed us to achieve phenolic ripeness like we’ve never seen in all of our fruit and picked our final few tons on Nov 11th.