Walla Walla Valley

Horse Heaven Hills

Columbia Valley

Syrah

Viognier

Merlot

Cabernet Sauvignon

Petit Verdot

Cabernet Franc

Prospice is the creation of two friends with a shared vision for wines and winemaking.  Each changed course from a prior professional career, drawn to winemaking by the impulse to craft an artisanal product.

At Prospice our focus is on making balanced and elegant wines that celebrate the source fruit and the vineyard sites.  We seek to roll back the clock on the modern trend toward riper, more extracted wines, preferring a lighter touch of oak and balanced extraction and alcohol.  We embrace modern scientific research into fermentation and aging, and the use of chemical analyses to understand and guide the production of the best wines we can possibly make from that fruit, but minimize the use of overly manipulative additives or techniques.  We use predominantly neutral oak barrels for aging, but employ a small number of new oak barrels — always of a carefully selected style and cooperage to complement the wine to be aged.

Throughout the process, the science, the analyses, the techniques, and the barrels are all ultimately in the service of the most subjective but most important tool we have:  our palate.  Ultimately, a wine is a small work of art in a bottle, and we seek to make each Prospice wine unique, expressive, and beautiful.

United States

Washington

Prospice Wines

Les Collines Vineyard Syrah

Prospice Merlot shows all the great vibrance and energy that can be found in Washington Merlot. Juicy red fruit is the start of the show here. In every vintage, the first variety we pick has always been Merlot, and we believe this early harvest is central to our bright and vibrant Merlot. We favor acidity and freshness over tannic weight and over-ripe qualities, and use only a small proportion of new French oak.

Walla Walla Valley

Prospice Wines

6 Wines from 6 Grape Varieties

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