Composition

AVA

Vineyard

Harvest

Alcohol

TA

pH pH Aging/oak

Cases

90% Malbec10% Petit Verdot

Wahluke Slope

56% Northridge44% Clifton Bluff

October 14-22, 2013

14.5%14.5%

5.10

3.88 (g/L)

100% Oak aged, 30% French Oak

1430

2013 THE ESTATES MALBEC

OverviewIn 1997, we planted our first vines in the Eastern Washington AVAs of the Columbia Valley and Wahluke Slope. At first glance, Eastern Washington is not your typical wine country. It’s a remote, windswept, high desert typical wine country. It’s a remote, windswept, high desert dotted with sagebrush and tumbleweeds. But our family had been farming here since the mid-1950s, and we believed the region’s moderate temperatures, low rainfall, and sandy soils were ideal for grapes. Eight years later, after selling fruit to many of Washington’s preeminent wineries, we started producing our own wines from the best wineries, we started producing our own wines from the best vineyard blocks. Today, winemaker Joshua Maloney is handcrafting an award-winning spectrum of Milbrandt Vineyards wines from our renowned estate vineyards.

-Butch & Jerry MilbrandtVineyardsOur 2013 The Estates Malbec highlights fruit from some of Our 2013 The Estates Malbec highlights fruit from some of our best vineyard sites in the Wahluke Slope AVA. The Northridge Vineyard consistently produces some of our most concentrated and complex Bordeaux varieties. Clifton Bluff Vineyard, closer to the Columbia River, has sandier soils and is one of our warmest sites, which leads to early ripening grapes with intense flavors.

Tasting NotesTasting NotesOur 2013 The Estates Malbec has aromas of wet stone, blueberries, white pepper, dried herb, with hints of vanilla and earth. This wine has a dense chewy mid-palate, with ample fruit, followed by a long pleasing finish.

Words from our Winemaker“Malbec thrives in Eastern Washington’s high desert climate. The 2013 Estates Malbec is impeccable with dark, climate. The 2013 Estates Malbec is impeccable with dark, rich color and round, supple tannins. Full bodied with intense ripe flavors upfront, and a velvety, smooth long finish.”

-Joshua Maloney