2022 Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon – Red Mountain AVA

Winemaker Notes

Our impression of this wine – The 2022 Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon is dark crimson and violet in the glass with fragrant aromatics of bourbon cherry, flinty minerals, red licorice, and iris. The full-bodied mouthfeel and full-throttle palate displays big yet polished tannins and flavors of blackberry compote, sweet oak, and leather. Finishing long and balanced with black raspberry and intriguing papaya.

100% Cabernet Sauvignon - Clone 8

Required Listening – The Who – Tommy

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.