Red Mountain

Red Mountain defines and unites us. There exists a certain character common to all its vineyards and grapes, one which translates into an identifiable wine style of power, length, and structure. Situated in the eastern corner of the Yakima Valley in eastern Washington, Red Mountain (1,410 ft.) was first planted in 1975 by Jim Holmes and John WIlliams. Due to its individuality, the TTB recognized this 4,040 acre south-facing slope as its own AVA (American Viticultural Area) in 2001, and it is one of the smallest in the country.

Eighteen thousand years ago, a series of glacial floods coming from Montana and Idaho tore across eastern Washington, leaving in its path the high pH loess (wind-blown dust) and coarse flood debris that our vines live in today. Red Mountain has a desert climate with occasional intense winds and temperature highs over 100 degrees in the late summer and dipping well below freezing in the winters; it has a meager average yearly rainfall of 4-7 inches. The severity of these growing conditions results in small, concentrated berries with thick skins and ineffable complexity.

Our devotion and love for this land, from our commitment to biodynamic farming to its presence in our very souls, allows us to become one with it—to experience a fluid, breathing body shared between humans and nature. Out of this bond comes Red Mountain's offering: a wine that could come from no other place on earth and tells such a distinct story, that the experience of drinking it becomes singular and transportive.