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2008 Grande Ronde Cellar White
2008 Kibitzer Alert (Chenin Blanc)
2008 Kibitzer Transfer (Black Muscat)
2006 Cellar Red (Cabernet, Grand Vidure)
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, Seven Hills
2005 Merlot, Seven Hills
2005 Pepper Bridge Cabernet Sauvingnon
2005 Charlotte’s Cuvee
2008 Kibitzer Convention (Riesling)
2008 Bridge Press Merlot
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2008 Cellar White
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$15.00
Region: Columbia Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Sauvignon Blanc (Fumé Blanc) (White)
90% Sauvignon Blanc and 10% Semillon (aged in oak) Columbia Valley more |
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2008 Kibitzer Alert
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$12.00
Region: Columbia Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Chenin Blanc (White)
100% Chenin Blanc, 2% residual sugar, Columbia Valley more |
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2008 Kibitzer Transfer
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$12.00
Region: Columbia Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Muscat Hamburg (Black Muscat) (White)
2% residual, 100% Black Muscat more |
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2008 Bridge Press Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon
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$39.99
Region: Walla Walla Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Cabernet Sauvignon (Red)
Intense Cabernet Sauvignon from Seven Hills Vineyard, Walla Walla Valley. 60% New French Oak, 40% one year old French barrels. First Release of this wine. more |
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2007 Cellar Red
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$24.99
Region: Walla Walla Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Red Blend (Red)
50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 50% Grand Vidure (Carmenere) Walla Walla Valley Appellation, 100% French Oak Wine Spectator 90 more |
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2005 Merlot Seven Hills Vy
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$29.99
Region: Walla Walla Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Merlot (Red)
92% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon Seven Hills Vineyard. Aged in 100% French Oak. Wine Spectator 89 more |
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2005 Merlot Seven Hills Vy
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$39.99
Region: Walla Walla Valley (WA, OR)
Type: Merlot (Red)
92% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon Seven Hills Vineyard. Aged in 100% French Oak. Wine Spectator 91 more |
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Wine Spectator Ratings
Winery: Grande Ronde
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| Merlot Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 2001 ( Score: 91 ) |
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Ripe and juicy with cherry, herb and coffee flavors, nicely wrapped in a fine layer of tannins, persisting elegantly on the long, delicately toasty finish. Drink now through 2011. 541 cases made.
(HS) Issue: Jul 31, 2004 |
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| Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 2001 ( Score: 89 ) |
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| Ripe and generous, nicely packed with plum and cherry flavors, shaded with spice and coffee notes on the lingering finish. Drink now through 2008. 476 cases made. (HS) Issue: Feb 29, 2004 |
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| Grande Ronde Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Pepper Bridge Vineyard 2002 ( Score: 88 ) |
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| Firm with a crisp feel to the smoky blackberry and cedar flavors, lingering on the dark finish. Best from 2007 through 2010. 350 cases made. Issue: June 15, 2006. |
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| Grande Ronde Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 1999 ( Score: 92 ) |
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| Polished, round, almost opulent, layering its plum, currant and cherry fruit. Hints of white pepper and floral character weave through the harmonious finish. Drink now through 2008. 211 cases made. --HS (Oct 15, 2002) |
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| Grande Ronde Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 1997 ( Score: 88 ) |
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| Ripe and complex, with more depth than most '97s. Offers a nice core of black cherry and blackberry, shaded with bay leaf and sage notes and a hint of gaminess. Polished tannins. Best from 2001 through 2006. 100 cases made. --HS (Sep 30, 2000) |
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| Grande Ronde Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 2002 ( Score: 90 ) |
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| Firm in texture, supporting an impressive superstructure of flavor, offering ripe cherry, currant and black olive flavors that lope alonggently through the long finish. Best from 2008 through 2014. 600 cases made. --HS(Feb 28, 2007) |
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| Grande Ronde Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 2001 ( Score: 88 ) |
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| Ripe and generous, with an herbal note hovering over the cherry, cinnamon and white pepper flavors, lingering nicely. Drink now through 2010. 296 cases made. --HS |
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| Grande Ronde Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley Seven Hills Vineyard 2000 ( Score: 89 ) |
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| Ripe and generous, nicely packed with plum and cherry flavors, shaded with spice and coffee notes on the lingering finish. Drink now through 2008. 476 cases made. --HS(Feb 29, 2004) |
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| Grande Ronde Cellar Red Walla Walla Valley 2003 ( Score: 90 ) |
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| Silky and plush in texture, this is generous with its tobacco-scented black cherry, currant and roasted red pepper flavors, all mingling enticingly on the open-textured finish. Cabernet Sauvignon and Grand Vidure. Drink now through 2013. 300 cases made. --HS (Feb 28, 2007) |
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Weather Conditions
2001 was an above average vintage. A cool September and October allowed the grapes to slowly ripen and reach an average brix of 24.2 with a ph of 3.50 and a total acidity of 51g/100 ml.
Seven Hills Vineyard
Seven Hills Vineyard is one of Washington’s most renowned vineyards. The grapes assert themselves with a power that exemplifies its unique location. The management of the vineyard is dedicated to producing the highest quality grapes by using traditional methods of pruning and the most advanced techniques to insure premier quality grapes.
Winemaking Practices
The grapes were hand-picked in mid-October during the cool morning hours and crushed the same day at the winery. The must was pumped over during the fermentation process two to three times a day to maximize extraction and minimize harsh tannins. The fermentation lasted 12 days. The wine settled ten days in tank before it was racked to 100% French Oak—50% new, 25 % one year old and 25% two year old. The wine was racked a total of four times before being bottled in June of 2003. These techniques contribute to the wines elegance, character and longevity.
Winemaker’s notes
The Grande Ronde Cellars 2001 Cabernet is 100% Cabernet. A complex, powerful full-bodied wine. The bouquet is exceptionally rich and intense with aromas of black cherry and blackberry. Generous fruit extraction with a hint of chocolate. The finish leaves an impression of concentrated, supple fruit. Long lasting wine, this is a wine to cellar. Deep ruby color. Best to drink 2008-2015.
The Vineyards of Grande Ronde Cellars Seven Hills Vineyard
Seven Hills Vineyard was rated one of the top ten vineyards in the world by Wines and Spirits Magazine.
Located on the edge of the Walla Walla Appellation you’ll find Seven Hills Vineyard. The original plantings date back to 1981 and have expanded to over 200 acres of premium wine grapes. Seven Hills Vineyard is managed by Chris Banek and is the source of fruit for many of the fine wineries in the state and valley.
(Seven Hills West is managed by Tom Waliser who also manages Pepper Bridge Vineyard).
Vineyard varietals that Grande Ronde purchases are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Grand Vidure. (The Grand Vidure is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in the Cellar Red wine.)
With the exception of five acres of Geneva Double Curtain, all grapes are grown on the Smart-Dyson split canopy trellises, in which the vines are trained both up and down off the cordon, or grape-bearing, wire.
The soil in this vineyard is Ellingford Silt Loam, which is a wind-blown glacial loess that is geologically very young and full of minerals. This soil, a mixture of all the soils in Western Canada, was moved into the Spokane area between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago by the last glacial age. The series of Bretz Floods, caused during the glacial period by ice dams, carried the soils into the Walla Walla Valley where their mineral rich, free draining, materials make ideal vineyard ground.
The vineyard reaches 1200 feet in elevation making it one of the higher vineyards in the valley and helping to protect it against the occasional hard winter freezes. This elevation also helps to protect against frost and in combination with its wind machines, the vineyard has never lost grapes to frost damage.
During the first months of each growing season irrigation is pulled from the Hudson Bay Ditch. After ditch water is shut off to protect the fish, irrigation switches to a deep basalt well, which is drilled over 1100-feet through hard rock. Water is distributed from a surge pond to the grapes through both above ground and buried drip lines that can also spread required fertilization along with the water.
Grapes are one of the most efficient crops in terms of water requirement and the drip system of irrigation eliminates waste water. The moisture monitoring system advises any time moisture gets below the root zone of the grapes. This allows the farm to irrigate only as much water as will be taken up by the plants and eliminates contamination of the ground water system.
Pepper Bridge Vineyard
Pepper Bridge Vineyard is one of our two estate vineyards located in the Walla Walla Valley Appellation. The original 10 acres were planted in 1991. Since then, the vineyard has been expanded to almost 200 acres. Pepper Bridge Vineyard has gained an outstanding reputation with winemakers throughout the state of Washington and especially the Walla Walla Valley. Tom Waliser has been the Vineyard Manager since its inception.
The vineyard uses cutting-edge technology on its irrigation and weather systems. Weather data, temperature, humidity, wind and sun energy units are recorded around the clock, and the data is downloaded to computer via phone line. Over sixty moisture-measuring points are spread throughout the farm and moisture data is logged once an hour, 24 hours per day.
The soils in this vineyard are Walla Walla Silt Loam, which is a wind-blown glacial loess that is young and full of minerals. This silt loam contains one-third sand and is very free draining.
At Pepper Bridge Vineyard, grapes are grown on the Smart-Dyson split-canopy trellis system, in which the vines are trained both up and down on the cordon, or grape-bearing, wire.
Norm McKibben is involved in all three vineyard sites – Seven Hills East, Seven Hills West and Pepper Bridge. Also involved in the Seven Hills East project is Gary Figgins of Leonetti Cellars and Marty Clubb of L Ecole#41.
The Grande Ronde Cellars red wines are aged in
100% French Oak barrels for fourteen to sixteen months.
The Cast: Dave Westfall, owner/winemaker 509-998-1999
John Mueller, owner/winemaker 509-999-5020
Dave Page, owner
 The Wines of Grande Ronde Cellars
2005 Merlot, Seven Hills Vineyard
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, Seven Hills Vineyard
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, Pepper Bridge Vineyard
2007 Cellar Red, (Cabernet Sauvignon and Grand Vidure)
Walla Walla Valley Appellation
2005 Charlotte’s Cuvee (Cabernet, Cab Franc and Merlot)
Seven Hills Vineyard
Upcoming Releases
Summer and Fall 2011
2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Seven Hills Vineyard
2006 Merlot, Seven Hills Vineyard
2008 Cellar Red, Walla Walla Valley Appellation
2006 Charlotte's Cuvee
2007 Grande Ronde Cellars
2007 Cabernet Franc
2007 Walla Walla Valley
2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Pepper Bridge Vineyard
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