Deru Wine Co Rattlesnake Hills Blaufrankisch 2024 October2023Reductions The block - now owned

The block - now owned by the Bengier family and farmed meticulously by Steve Matthiasson - sits on deep alluvial gravelly clay-loam in densely planted rows

Sangiovese and Canaiolo harvested in October

This French aperitif has been made since 1865 using gentian root

with cut-glass acid and a chalky bite

Pinot Grigio earned its dull reputation honestly

Deru Wine Co Rattlesnake Hills Blaufrankisch 2024 October2023Reductions The block - now ownedBlaufrnkisch in Washington State? Yes, and from one of the more thoughtful young producers working there. Deru is Caleb Taft's project a Bay Area wine and restaurant veteran who moved north to make low intervention wines from interesting Washington sites. Blaufrnkisch is the great red of Austria and Hungary, planted in tiny quantities in the U. S., and it finds an unlikely home in the warm volcanic soils of the Rattlesnake Hills AVA in the Yakima