2019 Grenache Proprietor's Reserve
Great Northwest Wine Platinum Awards - Platinum
Other accoldades:
SIP Magazine's Best of the Northwest - Double Gold
Great Northwest Wine's Invitational Competition - Gold
Limited Quantities Available
Wine Specs
Vintage
2019
Varietal
Grenache
Appellation
Columbia Valley
Acid
5.83 g/L
pH
3.52
Aging
17 months in 30% new French & European Oak and 70% Seasoned Oak
Bottling Date
03/03/2022
Residual Sugar
0.018
Alcohol %
14.5
Wine Profile
Vineyard Notes
Sourced from three award-winning vineyards - Gunkel Vineyards (Estate) 50% and Elephant Mountain Vineyard 49%.
Production Notes
Cases Produced: 606
Winemaker Notes
Throughout harvest, Winemaker Richard Batchelor worked closely with the grower and visited the vineyard to taste for maturity and ripeness to determine the precise moment to pick the fruit. Grapes were hand-harvested during the cool hours of the morning to preserve bright fruit notes. This single vineyard lot underwent a five day pre-fermentation cold soak before the tank was allowed to go through a native fermentation to dryness in about 21 days. Only the free run juice was collected and no press fraction was used in the making of this wine. The lots were then aged in French and European oak barrels for 17 months. For the first year this wine was stirred in barrel on its lees and racked when necessary to soften the tannins. After the first 12 months, the wine was racked off the lees for clarity before bottling.