Columbia Valley Grenache

Our Columbia Valley Grenache is always a blend of the vineyards we work with in a vintage. As our largest production red wine each year, it is intended to showcase our style of Grenache wine and be the primary wine we sell to restaurants and wine shops.

Links to specific vintages:

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2019 2020 2021

Reviews:

2020 Vintage:

Wine Enthusiast: 92 pts, Editor’s Choice

There's a harmony here between fruit, bright acidity and silky tannins. The aromatic set has a bit of earth and wet rocks to accompany dark wild strawberries and Nutella smeared on a warm pretzel. Peach and cherry flavors glide on a smooth texture, accented by a touch of garrigue. — Michael Alberty

Paul Gregutt’s Northwest Wine Guide: 90 pts

The winery produces two single vineyard Grenache bottlings; one from French Creek and one from Upland. This wine is a blend of both. It’s on the pale side, more like a dark rosé; aromatic with scents of violets. The fruit brings strawberries and raspberries front and center in a tasty mid-palate, then trails out with touches of sandalwood and cinnamon. — Paul Gregutt

Northwest Wine Report: 89 pts

This wine was fermented 50% whole cluster and aged 20 months in neutral oak. It’s aromatically expressive, with notes of tangerine essence, flower, freeze-dried strawberry, and spice. Medium-bodied, elegant fruit and barrel flavors follow, breaking up somewhat two-thirds of the way through before coming back together on the finish. Give it additional time in bottle or decant. — Sean Sullivan