Horse Heaven Hills
Coyote Canyon and McKinley Springs Vineyards
We have been working closely as farming partners with the Andrews Family since we met in 1998. They have trusted us with selecting pioneering varietals to plant in their third generation family vineyards, as well as custom making their first vintages for their estate winery.
McKinley Springs is planted at 1,100 feet in elevation on Warden sandy silt loam soils with north south row orientation. Perhaps it is the elevation, or the soils, but this vineyard gives us some of the best balanced fruit we work with. At this site we grown Cinsault, Carignan, and Mourvedre.
Coyote Canyon Vineyard Mourvedre was planted on what was a gravel bar of the great Missoula Floods in the Horse Heaven Hills. This steep and stony hillside is layered with gravel and caliche and has unencumbered southern exposure.