The 2018 Reserve Malbec was crafted from two small vineyard parcels along the Royal Slope in the Columbia Valley AVA. Farmed using sustainable practices, the vines were limited to one or two clusters per shoot to create maximum concentration in each cluster. They were hand-harvested in the early morning between September 21st – September 27th, 2018. Upon arriving in the winery, each cluster was hand-sorted, berry-sorted, and fermented in concrete tanks. Using only the free-run wine, it was then moved to custom French oak barrels (XX% new) for 27 months of cellaring with over 40 individual evaluations by our winemaking team. Only 8 barrels were bottled, unfined and unfiltered, producing only 193 cases.