Hedges Family Wines, CMS, Washington 2018

Red cherry, cocoa, coffee, creamy raspberry, roasted almond, vanilla, fresh ground cinnamon and cardamom. Fruity, spicy flavors, good structure with a nice long creamy red fruit, spice and cocoa finish. This wine is delicious, well rounded and sure to be a crowd pleaser.

For Hedges CMS, grapes come from the Columbia Valley vineyards, McNary, Wooded Island, Bacchus and Sagemoor, and the Red Mountain Vineyards of Hedges, Bel’ Villa, Jolet, Les Gosses and Magdalena. Most of the wines were pumped over during alcoholic fermentation for 6 to 10 days while on American Oak. About 40% of the wine was racked to barrel where it completed malo-lactic fermentation and then aged for an additional 15-18 months. The other 60% completed M-L in tank, at the end of which it was racked onto French Oak and had SO2 added. About 60% French oak /40% American oak.