2024 Kobayashi Viognier, Washington, USA La Bohème located at the Marne River

located at the Marne River

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Bottled on the early side in mid-May

These wines will redefine what we knew about this rare region of wines made with pre-phylloxera vines on the sandy hills of Sintra

The 2024 is bright and crunchy: red berry fruit

2024 Kobayashi Viognier, Washington, USA La Bohème located at the Marne RiverViognier from WeatherEye Vineyard, located at the top of Red Mountain in eastern Yakima Valley. The Rhone varieties Travis and Mario source from WeatherEye are ungrafted, single stake trained, and planted at high density on rocky, fractured basalt soils. The wine was 100% barrel fermented with ambient yeasts and matured for 11 months in used French oak before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.