SHOP / 2022 Harrison Hill Red Blend
Varietal
67% Cabernet Sauvignon
24% Merlot
9% Cabernet Franc
Appellation
Snipes Mountain AVA
Aging
Drink Now or Age 20+ Years
Vineyard
Harrison Hill
2022 Harrison Hill Red Blend
Snipes Mountain AVA
The 2022 Harrison Hill’s dreamy texture is accompanied by a vibrant bouquet of red currant, Bing cherry, candied orange peel, and a hint of scorched earth. The palate flows effortlessly from milk chocolate and cranberry to savory notes of green peppercorn and cigar wrapper. The wine’s classic light ruby color and medium body will nearly make you forget it is 67% Cabernet Sauvignon. The depth of flavors and matrix of complexity invokes feelings only experienced with truly special wines. Discover why this is one of our favorite cuvées year after year when you enjoy after a lengthy decant or cellar 20+ years.
94 Points
— Decanter
94 Points
Perhaps the most strangely placed vineyard in the Pacific Northwest produces one of Washington's most elegant wines, year in and year out. The 2022 Harrison Hill is downright showy, achieving a 14.1% abv. The 60-year-old Cabernet vines sit awkwardly amid a residential neighbourhood in the Yakima Valley's Snipes Mountain AVA. Sweet, wild strawberry aromatics are undeniable, leaping from the glass alongside a black truffle and a potpourri of dried roses. The palate shows sleek, light, refined elegance with sweet, ripe berries. Raspberry, spice, chicory root, rosehip oil, and cherries alongside petrichor. It's a delightfully intriguing wine that swerves from savoury to sweet-fruited and back again. - Clive Pursehouse, Decanter
February 2025
Additional Scores:
93
Wine Enthusiast
93
Jeb Dunnuck
93
Wine Spectator
Behind the Wine
2022 Harrison Hill Red Blend
A Bordeaux-style blend from a small, historic vineyard on Snipes Mountain, this wine is labelled after the vineyard’s namesake – Harrison Hill. Over the past six decades, the state’s second oldest Cabernet vines have matured gracefully while producing progressively limited yields. This slow, elegant maturation is a compelling expression of what it means to be a terroir-driven wine.
Vineyards
Harrison Hill, a five-acre site in the Snipes Mountain AVA, still boasts a 1962 Cabernet Sauvignon planting by William Bridgman, a pioneer of planting European wine grapes in Washington State. These vines are the second oldest in the state, and the oldest used in commercial wine production.
Winemaking
Single Vineyard blend from Harrison Hill. Stainless steel fermented, 14-16 days on skins. Barrel aged 20 months in French oak (94% new). Bottle aged 10 months prior to release.