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    As the most planted vinifera grape in WA state, Cab is King. We planted Cabernet Sauvignon here on our property in 1998 and have won multiple awards for our Cabernet, most recently a Double Gold medal at the Winepress NW Platinum judging.   Aside from our own Estate fruit, we source Cabernet Sauvignon from Quintessence Vineyard in Red Mountain and McKinley Springs Vineyard in Horse Heaven Hills.  

A good amount of our Cabernet production is assigned to our Reserve program, giving the wines added complexity and maturity from extra time in the barrel. We also use our Cabernet Sauvignon as the base for some of our more popular red blends, like Homage and Paisan.  Our Bordeaux Club members receive the lion’s share of these wines, and Cliff Club members receive regular selections of our Cabernet Sauvignon as well.

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We are a Barbera house, first and foremost, producing several wines made from this Piedmont varietal.  Our passion for Barbera began in 1990 when we planted our Old Barbera vines.  These are some of the very first plantings of Barbera in the Pacific NW and are used to make our Estate Barbera.  We make a Winemaker's Select Barbera, utilizing fruit from select vineyard sites in WA state, as well as Reserve Barbera, which spends extra time in the barrel before bottling.  Red blends and Rosé wines are also made from Barbera here.  Finally, there is the “Blood Red” Barbera, a rich, ripe style of Barbera and one of our most popular wines.  

Our Barbera wines have won numerous awards and medals, including Gold, Double Gold, Platinum, Double Platinum, Best in Class, and Best of the Best.  To accommodate and control the demand for these wines, we created a wine club – the Barbera Club – where members are guaranteed bottles of these small-production wines every year.  

We make a variety of red blends every year, including Bordeaux-style blends like Homage, GSM (Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre) blends like Ami, and Italian varietal blends like Paisan and Piacere. We also produce adventurous, unorthodox blends like Avanzo, Goat Head Red, Horsethief Red, and Petroglyph Red. Some of these blends are more traditional, suitable for longer aging. Others are playful and made to be everyday house wines. 

Most of these blends are included in the quarterly Cliff Club packages, but some of them are also included in the Bordeaux and Piedmont Club packages. Our wine club online deals often include our red blends as well. 

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   Another standout wine for us is our Syrah. We planted Syrah here on our property in 1998 with phylloxera-resistant rootstock and have used this fruit for both single-varietal and blended wines. Our style of Syrah – like most of our red wine – is rich, fruit-forward, and representative of the warm, dry area the fruit is grown in. Aside from our own Estate fruit, we source Syrah from Stanton Vineyard in Red Mountain and Chukar Ridge here in the Gorge.  

Our Syrah has been awarded Gold, Double Gold, and Double Platinum (Best of the Best) medals.  Cliff Club members receive regular bottles of our Syrah throughout the year.

 We have been growing and producing this rarely seen Piedmont varietal since 1988 and have some of the very first plantings of it in the Pacific NW here on our vineyar.Our Nebbiolo production is very small and includes single-varietal wine, red blends, Reserve selections, and Rosé wine.  Like our Barbera wine, the Nebbiolo we produce consistently receives high praise and awards from the wine industry and continues to provide a delicious, intriguing wine for the general public.  

Since our Nebbiolo production is so limited, we dedicate most of it to our wine clubs, in particular, the Piedmont Club. Although this red wine is the lightest color of our red wines, it is one of the best aging wines due to good amounts of tannin and acid. 

 While our wine production focuses primarily on red wine, we do produce a broad selection of white and rosé wine every year. Our estate vineyard has plantings of Sauvignon Blanc, Arneis, and the rare Symphony varietal, all providing us with fruit for our white wine production. 

We use Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Sangiovese – from both estate and outside vineyard sourcing – for our rosé wine production.

In addition, we source high-quality fruit from nearby vineyards to provide our customers with white wines such as Chardonnay, Riesling, Roussanne, Gewürztraminer, Petroglyph White blend, and more. 

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