GM and vineyard manager Will Beightol and winemaker Kate Michaud have teamed to craft another beautiful release from Double Canyon. Will happens to be the winery’s first employee, hired in 2007 to manage the estate vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills. Kate was brought on in 2017, the same year Double Canyon built a technologically advanced production winery in West Richland, WA, close to the Horse Heaven Hills AVA. Construction of a tasting room inside the sleek facility followed shortly afterwards.
You can find this wine on most wine aisles in the Northwest or visit the tasting rooms in Richland or downtown Seattle: 8060 Keene Rd, West Richland, phone (509) 579-7065, www.doublecanyon.com
In Seattle their wines are found at The Estates Wine Room in Pioneer Square, open daily at 307 Occidental Ave So., Seattle, phone (206) 623-5835.
Double Canyon 2016 Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet Sauvignon, $25
Editor’s Choice – Excellent (90 pts.)
Supple and generous in feel, with polished, sweet tannins that glide through balanced, upbeat flavors of red plum, blackberry and dried herbs, neatly interwoven with accents of cocoa, graphite and pleasing minerality that lingers on the fresh aftertaste.