2006 Hightower Cellars Murray Cuvee Red

Columbia Valley

Washington State

·  57% Cabernet Sauvignon

·  43% Cabernet Franc

· 71% Alder Ridge, 29% Red Mountain

Our 2006 Murray Cuvee is a lovely lighter bodied table wine. Its significant portion of

Cabernet Franc adds a real lively and spicy component to the wine.

The grapes for this wine were handpicked and handsorted to ensure that only the

best grapes were used. We fermented the fruit in small open-top containers no taller

than they are wide to extract greater flavor and color by having more juice in contact

with the grape skins. After gently pressing the wine from the skins the wine aged in

small oak barrels for twenty months. During barrel aging we gravity racked the wine

off its lees with a siphon. Separate lots were blended and bottled in the summer of

2008.

205 cases produced.