2015 Petit Verdot

"Jim Keller and his partners, which include co-founder Gary McLean and Rick Ellingson of Bargreen Ellingson, recently recruited Napa-trained Bill Murray to take over the winemaking for one of Washington's cult producers on the heels of their move from Woodinville to Walla Walla in 2017.  Their two barrels of Petit Verdot were grown at Stone Tree Vineyard, one of the state's hottest sites on the steamy Wahluke Slope.  The 22 months in 100% new French oak barrels makes for a complex and massive profile that's filled with coffee, tarry black fruit and cigar leaf.  It emerged one of the most power-laden and varietally correct examples in this compartive tasting. (50 cases, 14.9% alc.)"