Deru Wine Co Rattlesnake Hills Blaufrankisch 2024 October2023Reductions with cut-glass acid and a

with cut-glass acid and a chalky bite

Hard to find and well worth seeking out

The block - now owned by the Bengier family and farmed meticulously by Steve Matthiasson - sits on deep alluvial gravelly clay-loam in densely planted rows

The result is bright

Sangiovese and Canaiolo harvested in October

Deru Wine Co Rattlesnake Hills Blaufrankisch 2024 October2023Reductions with cut-glass acid and aBlaufrnkisch in Washington State? Yes, and from one of the more thoughtful young producers working there. Deru is Caleb Taft's project a Bay Area wine and restaurant veteran who moved north to make low intervention wines from interesting Washington sites. Blaufrnkisch is the great red of Austria and Hungary, planted in tiny quantities in the U. S., and it finds an unlikely home in the warm volcanic soils of the Rattlesnake Hills AVA in the Yakima