Andrew Will, Sorella Red Wine Horse Heaven Hills, 2006 SO032425 Pouillon from a single clay-and-limestone parcel

from a single clay-and-limestone parcel called Les Hurees at the foot of the Chavot hill

aged ~36 months in large Slavonian oak

This is young Burgundy at its most promising: already poised

more austere than anything from the Langhe

with silky tannins and an undercurrent of earth

Andrew Will, Sorella Red Wine Horse Heaven Hills, 2006 SO032425 Pouillon from a single clay-and-limestone parcelSorella is Chris Camarda's answer to the question of whether Washington State can make a Bordeaux blend to stand alongside the classics, and this bottle now has almost two decades to make the case. It's the flagship of Andrew Will, a Cabernet led blend rounded out with Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and a splash of Petit Verdot, drawn from old blocks in the Horse Heaven Hills. Camarda has resisted high alcohol and heavy extraction since the late 1980s,