Syncline Winery : Our Wines
Late Harvest Viognier Columbia Valley
Production: About 120 cases/375ml bottles
Tasting Notes
Bright gold color, like liquid sunshine. This wine is the essence of viognier naturally concentrated into pure bliss. Flavors lead with jasmine and honeysuckle flowers, peaches, and hints of orange zest. The mouth coating sweetness is quickly wiped clean with brilliant acidity leaving a focused and clean finish. Drink now or over the next ten years.
Harvest Notes
Appellation: Columbia Valley (Horse Heaven)
Harvest Dates: Late November to December
Varietals: 100% Viognier
Vineyard: Coyote Canyon
Vineyards
Coyote Canyon Vineyard lies in the northern part of the Horse Heaven Hills and straddles the Missoula Flood high-water mark. The viognier is planted to a gradual south facing slope in loess soils at 800’ in elevation. The vines are trained VSP up and down the slope face.
Fermentation and Aging
The fruit is hand harvested into 30 pound harvest boxes and transported to the winery in the early morning. All fruit is whole cluster pressed with press fractions kept separate. Settled overnight without the use of sulfites and then racked to older French oak barrels. Inoculated in barrel, fermentation halts in mid January or February. Occasional lees stirring and no malolactic fermentation contribute richness while maintaining acidity. Blended and sterile bottled in June.