Mighty Fine Wine

You didn’t see this coming! And to quote Brian Peterson, “I didn’t know we had Champoux Merlot”. Honestly this fruit got offered to us last minute in 2019 by Dan Nicklaus, Champoux and Wallula vineyard manager. How bad could it be? We crushed it, tasted great, stuffed it in a 500 gallon Radoux French oak oval and forgot about it. Turns out, this works!!……if you have very intense yet well-balanced fruit from one of the best sites in Washington. She good. I would bet you my truck that by 2029 we will be raving about this beauty.

After the last salmon is caught in Alaska in August I load water, food, dog food, a sleeping bag, trailer spare and jack/tire tool into a Chevy Silverado 3500. As I drive away from my beautiful winery/home I know I will be living in this truck for the next sixty days. From the first Merlot pick to the last Cabernet Sauvignon pick I generally spend several days a week in vineyards and small towns never once seeing the lights of the big city with its music, great food, and fun friends. It is work time. Time to taste every row of grapes in every vineyard with every vineyard manager. Time to make the little critical decisions that make our wine taste different from everyone else’s. Time to wear shades and a big cowboy hat and live on the phone. Time to pass out a few bottles of vino to the old hands who were at these vineyards when I made that wine five years ago. Time to see the sunset and sunrise. Time to feel satisfied that, yes, we are doing it all again, getting a little better every year with a little more experience and knowledge. People always ask me what I taste in the wine. I taste all that. It is etched in my memory. I am lucky. It’s a beautiful wine. Another classic Boudreaux.

In 2020 the best covid test was like this; If you could smell wine, you probably didn’t have covid. If you could taste wine, you definitely did not have covid. We had to keep testing and testing and testing. Shocker, there is a little bit less Cabernet Sauvignon in the Classic blend this year. This is because our Merlot is so dense, our Petit Verdot is intense, and our Cab Franc is remarkably floral. We have significantly intensified all of our varietals by reducing crop loads.  It is imperative to seek balance when blending no matter what percentage of varietals it takes to achieve bliss. I hope yall like this new one. It is intense.

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