Nose
The
nose opens with sweet fruits, cream brulée, and syrah’s pepper notes.
Palate
Powerful extracted fruits
fill the palate and follow through the long finish. The natural acids are clean and connect with
smooth tannins. Like the neighboring Horse Heaven Hills cabernets, this wine will develop its
perfume fully by the seventh year of age, and remain youthful until fifteen years old. I know from
experience, this wine will have a long life in your cellar of twenty years or more.
Growing Conditions
The warm summer produced amazingly
small berries that were fully ripe in early October.
Harvest
The cabernet sauvignon we hand harvested
112 days after flowering, on October 2nd. The syrah we harvested 112 days after flowering, also
on October 2nd.
Bottling
July 2009
Winemaking
The grapes of the Columbia Rediviva were sorted by hand both in the vineyard and again at
the winery on hand sorting tables. Then, by strict selection of the best lots, our final cellar blend
this vintage was made of only 65% of the vintage yield. We fermented both the syrah and the cabernet sauvignon in wooden Taransaud
tanks.
Aging
We selected two French coopers and one American cooper to age in primarily new barrels
until bottling. We have always then bottled aged this wine until three years old.
