2021 Latta Wines ''Kind Stranger'' Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, Washington, USAABOUT THIS WINE 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Malbec. Washington Cabernet vines grown in basalt derived gravel on the shoulders of Red Mountain give excellent depth, intense fruit and ample structure from this awesome site. The Weinbau Vineyard's 30 year old Malbec vines pile on the concentration and spice notes. Fermented whole berry with indigenous yeasts, then macerated an average of 28 days between the lots. Basket pressed to barrel for 20 months,

Michel Morey

Clyde and Nigel Snowman

These pebbles called “Galets Roulés” play a big role: They take in the heat during the day and let it if off slowly at night which gives a good start to the vines in the Spring

During the winter

The first being

the earliest records of Clos des Ducs

Founded in the 1970s

Ageing in Oak Foudres for 6 months

this great wine estate was bought by the Gorce family

Each of the domaine’s prestigious holdings is in Gevrey Chambertin

the main figure of the turning point in the family’s history was Henri Bourgeois

oak-studded terrain of Paso Robles would one day become a viticultural terroir of significance and one of the top winegrowing regions for quality red wine within the Central Coast