“A rare estate that makes both world-class Syrahs and world-class Bordeaux blends. Don’t miss these wines!” – Jeb Dunnuck

Washington’s rising star winemaker Chris Peterson is producing incredible wines at Avennia using fruit from some of the best sites in the Columbia Valley, including Boushey, Bacchus, Champoux, Dionysus and Red Willow vineyards. Pretty much the best old vine fruit money can buy in Washington. Compare Avennia’s wines with the likes of Leonetti ($100+ a bottle) and Andrew Will ($75+ a bottle). Avennia’s wine score as high or higher and sell for a lot less. Yep, here you can have the best juice and the best prices too!

Avennia Boushey Syrah 2018

Sale $54.89 net  (US best price online!)

97 pts Jeb Dunnuck

"Dark purple garnet color. This wine has quite a complex nose of blueberry and dark cherry reduction, cured meats, oil cured Kalamata olives, savory herbs, singed orange peel, and river minerals. There is a lot of volume on the palate, with dark fruits, bacon fat, incense, and floral elements that keep unwinding in layers as the wine opens. Tightly wound now, with a concentration and balance indicative of the vintage, this is an Arnaut for the ages. Drink 2023-2038." – Chris Peterson, Winemaker.

“The 2018 Syrah Arnaut Boushey Vineyard is all varietal and was 85% destemmed and aged 16 months in 15% new French oak. Offering an Hermitage-like meatiness as well as lots of black and blue fruits, full-bodied richness, a round, expansive texture, and beautiful violet, floral, and gamey aromas and flavors, it’s brilliant, concentrated red delivering notable ripeness as well as a plenty of underlying structure and tannins. Again, a comparison to a top Hermitage comes closest in comparison. Give bottles 2-4 years and enjoy over the following 10-15 years.” – JD

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