Tasting Notes:
Aromas of peach and pears that lead way to crisp acidity. Bright fruit flavors throughout and a beautiful clean finish.

Fermentation: The grapes were hand harvested and whole berry pressed which produces high quality extracted juice. 50% of the wine was fermented cold in a stainless fermenter. 50% was barrel aged on the lees for 5 months. 

Vineyards:
Sawtooth Vineyard

Release Date:  October 2005

Tasting Notes: Fresh aromas of ripe apple and pear with a hint of mineral proceed rich fruit flavors in the mouth and a crisp finish.

Vineyard:  Sawtooth Vineyard

Fermentation:  The grapes were hand harvested and whole berry pressed to maintain the delicate fruit aromas and flavors of the varietal.  Fifty percent of the Viognier was barrel fermented in older French cooperage and 50% was tank fermented to preserve the varietal fruit.  The two styles were blended together, along with 25% barrel fermented Rousanne to make a wine that is intense in fruit aromas, yet rich and flavorful in the mouth.

Released:  March 2005

Tasting Notes:
Rich aromas of black fruits, vanilla, spice and a hint of mint precede intense flavors of the spice and black berries. Rich round and long in the mouth.

Fermentation:
The grapes were hand picked and then destemmed to a red fermenter and cold soaked for 48 hours.  The wine went through slow fermentation for two weeks for optimum extraction before being pressed into barrels and aged for 12 months.

Vineyards:
Sawtooth & Skyline

Released:  December 2004

Tasting Notes:
This wine has intense aromas of spices, black berry, and soft oak. It has a big mouth feel, exploding flavors at the beginning, and carrying all the way through the velvety tannins to a long finish.

Fermentation:  
The grapes were picked later in the season to obtain maximum flavors, then destemmed into red fermentors. The wine went through a 3 week maceration to achieve maximum flavors and intensity before being pressed to small oak barrels for 16 months of aging.

Vineyards:
Sawtooth Vineyards

Released:  July 2006

Reserve Line

2000 Reserve Cabernet
100% Cabernet
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Tasting Notes:
Intense aromas of blackberry pie, spice and mint and oak give way to big structure, round, ripe tannin and a long finish.

Vineyards: 
Sawtooth

Fermentation:
The fruit for our Reserve Cabernet comes from our oldest block on the hill next to the winery. Shallow volcanic soils, open canopies, small berries and yields give this wine intense flavor and structure. We carefully hand pick, press, and slow ferment this wine. We then barrel age the wine for 22 months on new French oak barrels before bottling.

Release Date:  December 2003

Cases Produced:  250

Tasting Notes:
Intense aromas of spice, mint and vanilla. It has well integrated tannins and rich full mouth feel that leads to a lingering finish. 

Vineyards:
Sawtooth

Fermentation:
This wine received 2 weeks of extended maceration, then pressed and moved to barrel. The wine was aged for 16 months in new French Oak barrels.

Released:  January 2003

Awards:

Silver - 2003 Tasters Guild International
Silver - 2003 International Eastern Wine Comp
Silver - 2003 Jerry Mead New World International Wine
             Competition

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