Overview: Estate Vineyards

The Walla Walla Valley Appellation is blessed with well-drained loess soils deposited by glacial floods beginning around 11,000 BC. Periodic eruptions from Oregon's Mount Mazama and Washington's Mount St. Helens added volcanic minerals that yield the distinctive characteristics of the award-winning Walla Walla Valley wine grapes.

These events, in combination with low annual rainfall, low humidity, hot days, and cool evenings of southeastern Washington's high desert created one of the premier wine-grape growing regions in the world.

Bordered on the east by the spectacular Blue Mountains, our estate vineyards — Pepper Bridge, Seven Hills and Les Collines — cover more than 600 acres in the Walla Walla Valley Appellation. Varietals grown include Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sémillon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Sangiovese, Grand Vidure and Petit Verdot.