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2016
Estate Red Mountain Reserve
Estate Bottled Reserve | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 69% Heart of the Hill, 31% Kiona Estate
- Composition: 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 11% Petit Verdot, 3% Carmenère, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Malbec
The world’s finest wines are all a reflection of the areas from which they are grown. Origin and geography matter most when dictating what a finished bottle tastes like. More than winemakers, more than varietals, more than yeast or barrel or blending variables; wines taste like their place.
With that in mind (and because we are extremely well-positioned to build such a wine) we have put together a geographically-designated flagship product. This is the definitive wine of our vineyards, of our viticulture, of our plantings on Red Mountain.
So please enjoy this Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant flagship blend. It’s the answer to the question, “What’s so special about Red Mountain?”
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2016
Estate Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 70% Kiona Estate, 30% Heart of the Hill
- Composition: 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot, 4% Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon is king on Red Mountain. From the humble beginnings of our pioneering 1975 planting to today, we’ve grown cabernet sauvignon on Red Mountain longer than anyone. This wine is a culmination of our multigenerational tradition. The backbone of the wine is cabernet sauvignon from our Kiona Estate Vineyard North Block, a stalwart contributor for quality Red Mountain cabernet sauvignon for decades.
This authoritative wine shows why Red Mountain has a reputation as a powerhouse Cabernet Sauvignon producer capable of going toe-to-toe with the world’s best. Fine grain tannin, great fruit, and dark color abound. High-end components from our esteemed Heart of the Hill estate vineyard add depth, complexity, and layered intrigue.
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2017
Estate Red Mountain Merlot
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 82% Kiona Estate, 13% Heart of the Hill, 5% Sunset Bench
- Composition: 75% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 5% Syrah
The Kiona Estate vineyard is the oldest on Red Mountain. We have 4 distinct blocks of Merlot here; the first was planted in 1976, the youngest in 1995. While these components obviously have much more in common than not, they continue to surprise us even after several decades of experience. All four blocks are included in the 2017 blend, along with a component from our younger Heart of the Hill planting that has garnered a lot of attention in a short period of time.
Merlot from Red Mountain is special; here it's a powerful yet elegant grape, capable of producing wines of profound depth and density of character. A gentle oak regimen that employs primarily 2nd-fill barrels ensures abundant fruit and geographical specificity are preserved in the finished wine.
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2017
Estate Red Mountain Malbec
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyard: 100% Heart of the Hill
- Composition: 87% Malbec, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon
We have just 2.55 acres of Malbec planted at our estate Heart of the Hill vineyard on Red Mountain. The varietal thrives here, producing wines of uncommon depth and complexity, usually with a softer, rounder profile than many of its Bordeaux-varietal cousins.
Malbec has recently been “discovered” by the wine-drinking public as a superb stand-alone grape for fruit-forward, dark, approachable wines with lots of depth. This certainly holds true on Red Mountain, where plantings are relatively young but already exhibiting a lot of character. Color and acid in spades!
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2016
Estate Red Mountain Syrah
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 85% Sunset Bench, 15% Heart of the Hill
- Composition 85% Syrah, 12% Mourvèdre, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon
Legendary Washington vineyard guru Dick Boushey famously proclaimed that "Syrah loves a view," and that's exactly what Sunset Bench offers. It's located higher on the hill than many of our other plantings, resulting in superb air/water drainage, dramatic diurnal temperature swings, and ample heat accumulation.
Syrah from Red Mountain is prized for producing wines of profound concentration, color, and character. Our family has farmed Syrah on this dusty slope for more than 20 years, and we are continually impressed at its depth and versatility. A remarkable wine.
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2019
Estate Red Mountain Sangiovese
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 75% Ranch at the End of the Road, 20% Kiona Estate, 5% Heart of the Hill
- Composition: 75% Sangiovese, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Carmenère
We grow Sangiovese at both the Kiona Estate vineyard (2 acres) and the Ranch at the End of the Road vineyard (3.5 acres) on Red Mountain. Although not planted in large quantities in our area, it excels nonetheless. Big diurnal temperature swings and lots of heat accumulation amount to ripe fruit with ample, well-balanced acidity.
Sangiovese is an extremely versatile grape that has near universal appeal for red wine drinkers. On Red Mountain, the wines are racy and bright, with vibrant red fruit and trademark minerality. Its ample acidity makes it a food-pairing superstar, able to complement a wide array of cuisines from around the world.
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2018
Estate Red Mountain Lemberger
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 90% Kiona Estate, 10% Heart of the Hill
- Composition: 85% Lemberger, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Carmenère, 5% Mourvèdre
Kiona Vineyards and Winery produced the first commercial bottling of Lemberger in the United States in 1980. Since then, our original 1.8 acre planting has grown to 13.1acres. Lemberger is typically grown in cooler regions; Red Mountain is a blast furnace by comparison, which means ours is stouter and darker than most.
For more than four decades Lemberger has been an important part of our family’s
tradition on Red Mountain. The grape thrives here, producing medium-bodied,
fruit-driven wines that pair well with a wide array of foods. It’s an uncommon grape
that’s worthy of attention.- 93Points
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2018
Estate Red Mountain Chenin Blanc Ice Wine
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyard: 100% Kiona Estate
- Composition: 100% Chenin Blanc
- Residual Sugar: 175 g/L
While Red Mountain is known for big, powerful red wine, it’s also an exceedingly good place to grow white varietals. The Kiona Estate vineyard has 4 acres of Chenin Blanc planted in a depression, ensuring a consistent freeze year-in, year-out. We don’t pick Ice Wine until the grapes are naturally frozen in the vineyard, typically picking in the early morning hours before the sun rises.
Ice Wine is one of the world’s most elusive and delicious elixirs. We prefer to use Chenin Blanc, a varietal that allows for robust acidity and intense green and tropical fruit avors. Our philosophy with this wine is to emphasize acidity over outright sweetness, a tactic that ensures we produce a balanced, crisp wine that dances on the tongue.
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Wines of the Columbia Valley
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2017
Columbia Valley Estates Cuvée
Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: Kiona Estate, Heart of the Hill, Ranch at the End of the Road, Sunset Bench, Vista, Nine Canyon
- Appellations: 54% Columbia Valley, 46% Red Mountain
- Composition: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot, 2% Sangiovese, 2% Lemberger
Estates Cuvée is a blend from all of our estate vineyards. Each site contributes to the wine in a special way, resulting in an estate-grown wine that is uniquely representative of Washington state. The Columbia Valley components bring acid, fruit, and drinkability, while the Red Mountain additions contribute depth, structure, and color.
This nuanced, multi-faceted, food-pairing superstar shows that Washington wines pack a serious punch at every price point. Declassified family-grown estate fruit from the Pacific Northwest's premier AVAs in an approachable, balanced, textured, and crowd-pleasing blend? Yes, please.
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2019
Columbia Valley Chenin Blanc
Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: 60% Kiona Estate, 40% Andrews
- Residual Sugar: 7.6 g/L
Chenin Blanc grows exceptionally well in the Columbia Valley, where big temperature swings and ample sunlight ensure nice ripening and vibrant acidity. Strong demand and limited old-vine acreage keep Chenin Blanc in the hands of only a few top-notch producers, Kiona Vineyards and Winery included. One of our favorite grapes.
With trademark bright, crisp, fruit-forward characteristic and immense food-pairability, our Chenin Blanc is a definite crowd-pleaser. We fermented the 2019 version in a few different vessels, including stainless steel, clay amphora eggs, and neutral oak. The result is a refined take on the grape, with nice complexity, layering and typicity. Since our inaugural 1980 vintage, Chenin Blanc has been a stalwart in our portfolio.
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2019
Columbia Valley Chardonnay
Columbia Valley
- Vineyard: 100% Kiona Estate
- Composition: 100% Chardonnay
- Treatment: 52% Stainless, 48% Neutral Oak
Although designated Columbia Valley on the label, our 2019 Chardonnay is 100% estate-grown Red Mountain fruit from our Kiona Estate vineyard. The old-vine Chardonnay block is the the oldest planting on Red Mountain; it produces elegant wines worthy of attention. These gnarly, fan-trained vines stand nearly ten feet tall.
Chardonnay has been a part of our tradition dating back to 1975. The grape thrives in Washington, where the wines are nuanced and layered with a high drinkability; they're more aggressive than Burgundy and more elegant than California. Barrel-fermentation adds layering, depth, and creaminess. It's a crowd-pleasing wine that's equally at home with a food pairing as it is all by itself.
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2017
Columbia Valley Riesling
Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: 53% Kiona Estate, 25.5% Vista, 21.5% Olsen
- Composition: 100% Riesling
- Residual Sugar: 23 g/L
The greater Columbia Valley is a fantastic place to grow riesling. The backbone of this blend is from our Kiona Estate vineyard, where the riesling vines hold the distinction of being the oldest on Red Mountain (planted in 1975). We include components from the relatively cooler Vista and Olsen sites for layering, aromatic complexity, and acidity.
Crisp, clean and refreshing, this Columbia Valley Riesling showcases the bright acidity and tremendous fresh fruit characteristics that make Washington a world-class riesling producer. We cold-ferment to preserve fruit flavors, maximize pizzaz, and capture a small amount of frizzante in every bottle.
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2019
Columbia Valley Late Harvest Riesling
Columbia Valley
- Vineyard 100% Holten
- Composition 100% Riesling
- Residual Sugar 71 g/L
Acid balance is imperative when crafting world-class late harvest wine, and we've found that the riesling from Holten vineyard is ideally suited for that requisite trait. It's got the ideal exposure, precipitation levels, and diurnal shift to produce the delicious, well-balanced dessert wine we have earned a reputation for.
Picked far into the growing season, this Late Harvest Riesling had plenty of time to develop exceptional flavor complexity and high sugar levels. The wine is cold-fermented to preserve fresh-fruit flavors and accentuate the site's vibrant acidity while capturing a small amount of frizzante in every bottle.
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2015
Estate Red Mountain Old Block Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyard: 100% Kiona Estate
- Composition: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
To celebrate the brash decision these two pioneers of Washington wine made 40 years ago, we have put together a release that tells this story. Four decades of tradition can be found in this wine.
Our Old Block Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon is exactly what it sounds like; Cabernet Sauvignon from that original 1975 planting, the one that started it all. As vines mature, they tend to produce softer, more elegant wines with smooth, velvety tannins and nuanced flavors. Typically this material would find its way into either our Estate Red Mountain Reserve and/or Cabernet Sauvignon blends, but we decided to keep a few barrels from the stellar 2015 vintage separate for this limited bottling.
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2016
Estate Red Mountain Heart of the Hill Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Grown | Estate Bottled
- Vineyard: 100% Heart of the Hill
- Composition: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
This eponymous single-vineyard bottling from our estate Heart of the Hill vineyard represents the second phase of our multi-year project to produce and release vineyard-designated wines from each of our estate sites. Heart of the Hill has quickly gained a reverence amongst Cabernet Sauvignon-loving winemakers and consumers, and our version proves why. While it showcases quintessential Red Mountain traits (pure fruit, stout tannin structure, buoying acidity, etc.), this wine simultaneously stands alone in our lineup in terms of style and execution. The 2016 Estate Red Mountain Heart of the Hill Cabernet Sauvignon offers a stark juxtaposition with our Estate Red Mountain Old Block Cabernet Sauvignon; even though the vineyards are practically next door and share all viticultural/enological philosophies and expertise, Kiona Estate and Heart of the Hill are different beasts. We are excited to share this new wine with the public.
94 Points, Best US Cabernets, Wine & Spirits Magazine
92 Points, Wine Advocate
92 Points, James Suckling
92 Points, International Wine Review
95 Points, Sunset Magazine
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Version IV
Red Mountain Cyclops
Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 50% Sunset Bench, 40% Heart of the Hill, 10% Red Heaven
- Composition: 50% Syrah, 40% Mourvèdre, 10% Grenache,
Cyclops is a wine with a decidedly edgier bent than our usual products. The idea from the beginning has been to showcase Red Mountain with a less-than-traditional blending philosophy and methodology. Before the first Cyclops was released, we essentially only dealt in varietally-designated wines. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Lemberger; these were Kiona products that all fit within a tidy portfolio mix. Wanting to flex our blending acumen, Cyclops was born from the type of experimentation and blending flexibility that we hadn’t had the opportunity to showcase before.
Now on its forth iteration, Cyclops has emerged as one of our most cult-worthy offerings.
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Version II
Red Mountain Nyx
Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 80% Heart of the Hill, 15% Sunset Bench, 5% Red Heaven
- Composition: 80% Mourvédre, 15% Syrah, 5% Grenache
Nyx II lets Red Mountain Mourvédre take center stage as a juxtaposition to Cyclops' more Syrah-dominate composition. It's an under-appreciated grape (also known as Monastrell in Spain), and it grows particularly well on Red Mountain at our Heart of the Hill estate vineyard.
We've had great success with vertical blending, a technique we first employed more than ten years ago with the original Cyclops. Nyx II continues that tradition; it's a fantastic way to focus on geography first, which is our intention here. Vertical blending allows us to show the drinker what our vineyards do over a larger snapshot of time than the typical 12-month period.
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2019
Estate Red Mountain Rosé of Sangiovese
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 71% Kiona Estate, 29% Ranch at the End of the Road
- Composition: 100% Sangiovese
- Residual Sugar: 11.8 g/L
We made rosé for most of the 80’s and 90’s. We love rosé. Then people stopped buying rosé, so we had to stop making it.
Well, rosé is cool again, and we are relieved. Because we make kick-ass rosé.
The trick with making kick-ass rosé is to pick it early. We like to use Sangiovese, a grape known for fantastic red fruit characteristic and bright acidity; fantastic attributes for rosé. We picked the grapes for this rosé way before the grapes for our Estate Red Mountain Sangiovese (a traditional red wine), were ready. Once we brought it in, we pressed it right away, allowing essentially zero skin-time. This is one pretty bottle of wine.
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Version I
Estate Red Mountain Big Kiona
Estate Bottled | Red Mountain
- Vineyards: 58% Ranch at the End of the Road, 42% Heart of the Hill
- Composition: 58% Zinfandel, 42% Petite Sirah
We’ve been making Big Kiona for almost 20 years. Our new Petite Sirah planting at Heart of the Hill presented the perfect opportunity tweak this fan-favorite in some very interesting ways.
This has always been a wine that eschews subtlety for an aggressive “in-your-face” experience; it’s called Big Kiona, after all. Fans of the ripe, jammy, late-picked Zinfandel flavors in previous versions will find even more to like with this release, on account of the Petite Sirah component being one of the darkest, most audacious wines we have ever produced. Did we mention the 15.9% alcohol? KA-POW!
