Dark ruby in color, this wine has pronounced fruit aromas of ripe marionberries, blackberry jam as well as hints of butter, vanilla and clove and cedar. It's higher tannin and lower acidity make it a great wine to pair with rich meat dishes, such as lamb and beef stews.
The Edgefield Winery is located at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge at historic McMenamins Edgefield, site of the former Multnomah County Poor Farm (ca. 1911).
Fruit for this Zinfandel was sourced from the McKinley Springs Vineyard, located on the far eastern edge of the Columbia Gorge and neighboring Alder Ridge Vineyard.
"Horse Heaven Hills" is a sub- appellation of the expansive Columbia Valley Appellation. The Horse Heaven Hills are a long range of high, rolling hills in Klickitat, Yakima, and Benton counties in Washington State located east of Satus Creek and west of the Columbia River between the Yakima River and the Wallula Gap. Horse Heaven Hills' proximity to the Columbia River, its distinctive topography and its soil composition bring additional benefits to the growing area, moderating temperature extremes, offering steep, south-facing slopes for optimum vineyard locations, and providing quick-draining soils of silty loam to enhance canopy management through drip irrigation. The soils were deposited in the Horse Heaven Hills region when approximately 15,000 years ago the great Missoula Floods repeatedly dropped their loads of silt on a rocky volcanic base of fractured basalt.