Tasting Notes 
Delicious, ripe fruit aromas and flavors make this wine an appealing quaff. Floral and citrus highlights in the nose and juicy stone fruit on the palate linger across a fresh, concentrated finish.  

Vintage 
Due to an unusual spring heat wave just before bloom, berries were smaller-than-average in 2007, adding concentration and flavor to the grapes. Good set after bloom, ideal summer conditions, followed by the Columbia Valley’s typical fall weather pattern of warm days and cool nights, ripened grapes slowly and evenly. The resulting wines have excellent natural acidity and deep, intense flavor.

Vineyard
Novelty Hill’s family-owned vineyard, Stillwater Creek, is a warm site known for its steep slopes and large pieces of fractured basalt found throughout the soils - an anomaly in the Columbia Valley.  More than one visitor here has commented on the soil's similarity to the Rhone, perhaps one reason why Rhone varieties like Roussanne thrive here.

Winemaking
• Hand-picked and fermented in small lots
• Barrel fermented in nuetral French oak

Case Production - 363 cases

Blend - 97% Roussanne; 3% Viognier

Alcohol - 13.5%

pH - 3.42

Total Acidity - 0.54 g/100 ml


Mike Januik, Winemaker