Variety: Cabernet, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Tannat, Abouriou, Fer, Ste. Macaire, Manseng Noir, etc.
Vineyard: Scorched Earth Vineyard
Location: Columbia Gorge, WA
Alcohol: 11.5%

The wines expresses itself as pure perfume, more like an enveloping cloud than a liquid. It smells like a thicket, bramble or hedge; of leaves dense with aromatic oils, ripe raspberry, blackberry and plum, the pollen laden legs of bees and red rust that somehow contains the essence of summer.

Hand-harvested, spends a full month on the skins. Aged in neutral oak barrels for roughly nine months.

Scorched Earth Vineyard is a 9.83-acre site farmed by Hiyu since 2016 in the desert east of Lyle, Washington State. The site is on the banks of the Columbia River at sea level and the vines are planted in black (basalt) sand. The Feis, a one-acre parcel at the western edge of the vineyard beside Solaris and below Clochan. This part of the site is closest to the river, where the soils are a bit deeper and have more organic matter than the pure sand or basalt cobbles found in other parts of the vineyard. In 2016 vines were grafted from Syrah to a field blend of all the grapes you would have encountered in Southwestern France in the late Middle Ages: many clones of heirloom Cabernet and Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Tannat, Abouriou, Fer, Ste. Macaire, Manseng Noir, etc.