Double Gold, 2024 Pacific Northwest Wine Competition
Double Gold, 2024 Hilton Head Food & Wine Festival
Gold, 2024 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition
95 Points, Pacific Northwest Wine Competition

Three words are necessary to understand what a truly great Washington State Cab can taste like: Quintessence. Quintessence. Quintessence. 

Bad joke, perhaps, but Argonne Cellars is particularly fortunate to be sourcing our grapes from one of the best AVAs for Cabernet Sauvignon in the state. Hmm, let’s correct that, “one of the finest in the world.” (And that would be a quote from Wine Enthusiast.)

These grapes produce a dense, rich cab. The first thing that’ll strike you is the color. Deeper color at the edge than others from lesser AVAs. This Cab challenges all those other color doyennes, even Petit Verdot. 

It is a well-structured and powerful wine with excellent mouth feel that offers the drinker a new discovery at every sip, and it delivers until the bottle is drained…and you’re starting to debate whether to open another. 

Red Mountain AVA
Quintessence Vineyard

90% Cabernet Sauvignon
7% Malbec
3% Petit Verdot

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Best in Class, Platinum, 2024 San Diego International Wine Challenge
Double Gold, 2024 Pacific Northwest Wine Competition
Double Gold, 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Gold, 2024 Hilton Head Food & Wine Festival
94 Points, Pacific Northwest Wine Competition
94 Points, Rich Cook, Wine Review Online

This magnificent award-winning Syrah is grown from the world-famous Phelps Clone stock. It comes from a vineyard with a terroir that produces the boldest, most fruit-forward wine you’ll ever encounter.

It fairly cries out for a porterhouse. In fact, it’ll eat the porterhouse all by itself if you’re not careful. 

Red Heaven Vineyard
Red Mountain AVA

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Double Gold, 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Double Gold, 2024 Pacific Northwest Wine Competition
Double Gold, 2024 Hilton Head Food & Wine Festival
94 Points, Pacific Northwest Wine Competition

Poor Petit Verdot. It toils in anonymity; at best many will simply say, “well, that’s the blending grape, right?” The French called it Petit Verdot (“small, green”) almost as a complaint about its late ripening, almost too-painful-to-watch, challenge in ever reaching maturity.

But all it ever needed was a warmer climate. So, to those of us who’ve gotten to know this varietal in all its New World style, and single varietal, glory? Wow. It’s a real pleaser with extraordinarily rich color and intense flavors. 

And when it’s grown in the Red Mountain AVA with its blast furnace heat? It doesn’t get any better than this. Literally. 

In fact, this little demon won a Double Gold at the most prestigious wine competition in North America, the San Francisco Wine Competition. Small and green? Not anymore.

Red Mountain AVA
Stanton Vineyard

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Gold, 2024 Pacific Northwest Wine Competition
Gold, 2024 Hilton Head Food & Wine Festival
Silver, 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Silver, 2024 San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge
92 Points, 2024 Pacific Northwest Wine Competition

Le vin noir de Cahors as the French used to call it. “The black grape.” Truly, one of the most the most badass, teeth-staining creations on the planet. High in polyphenols, it’s almost a health tonic, for God’s sakes. 

This is another of our award-winning 2020 reds from Red Mountain. We feel that 2020 was a pretty superb year to launch a winery. It had great growing conditions and, if anything, very aggressive pruning due to lessened COVID demand. It all added up to amazingly concentrated flavors. 

Like all our reds, this Malbec is deep, rich, and with more fruit than you can imagine. When we pressed this wine, it was super juicy and just kept producing and producing and producing. And all with zero flavor or color diminution. We literally ran out of barrel space with this varietal.

Red Mountain AVA
Stanton Vineyard

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Silver, 2024 Pacific Northwest Wine Competition

Funny thing about the word “Sérendipité” …while it IS a French word adapted from English, many French do not necessarily understand it. This wine is a lot like that.

It’s blend of three Bordeaux varietals but in an unabashedly New World effort and by using decidedly non-French style methodology. It celebrates the power of what a suite of grapes from the Red Mountain AVA can truly do. 

And while these three are unapologetically badass just like all our wine from Red Mountain, an interesting thing happened. Because they were not blended, but rather they were barreled together, they ended up very integrated.

Hence the name “Sérendipité” …a little bit of a double entendre that someone from Bordeaux probably wouldn’t understand. But who cares? We’re guessing you will...  

Red Mountain AVA
Quintessence Vineyard
Stanton Vineyard

50% Cabernet Sauvignon
25% Malbec
25% Petit Verdot

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This wine was bottled in early November 2023 and we feel that it, and its 3 other red varietal brethren from the Red Mountain AVA, will be every bit as spectacular as their award-winning 2020 cousins. 

Argonne Cellars believes that bottle aging is key to expressing the very best nature of these magnificent grapes and our gentle, low-impact winemaking techniques. 

By bottle aging, tannins will soften, and a wine’s subtle, tertiary notes start to come forward. Your reward for waiting will be more complex and rewarding than younger bottles with more one-dimensional primary fruit.

However, if you’re a Friend of Argonne^TM and curiosity is getting the better of you, reach us at: contact@argonnecellars.com and who knows?

This wine was bottled in late October 2023 and we feel that it, and its 3 other red varietal brethren from the Red Mountain AVA, will be every bit as spectacular as their award-winning 2020 cousins. 

Argonne Cellars believes that bottle aging is key to expressing the very best nature of these magnificent grapes and our gentle, low-impact winemaking techniques. 

By bottle aging, tannins will soften, and a wine’s subtle, tertiary notes start to come forward. Your reward for waiting will be more complex and rewarding than younger bottles with more one-dimensional primary fruit.

However, if you’re a Friend of Argonne^TM and curiosity is getting the better of you, reach us at: contact@argonnecellars.com and who knows?

This wine was bottled in late January 2024 and we feel that it, and its 3 other red varietal brethren from the Red Mountain AVA, will be every bit as spectacular as their award-winning 2020 cousins. 

Argonne Cellars believes that bottle aging is key to expressing the very best nature of these magnificent grapes and our gentle, low-impact winemaking techniques. 

By bottle aging, tannins will soften, and a wine’s subtle, tertiary notes start to come forward. Your reward for waiting will be more complex and rewarding than younger bottles with more one-dimensional primary fruit.

However, if you’re a Friend of Argonne^TM and curiosity is getting the better of you, reach us at: contact@argonnecellars.com and who knows?

This wine was bottled in late November 2023 and we feel that it, and its 3 other red varietal brethren from the Red Mountain AVA, will be every bit as spectacular as their award-winning 2020 cousins. 

Argonne Cellars believes that bottle aging is key to expressing the very best nature of these magnificent grapes and our gentle, low-impact winemaking techniques. 

By bottle aging, tannins will soften, and a wine’s subtle, tertiary notes start to come forward. Your reward for waiting will be more complex and rewarding than younger bottles with more one-dimensional primary fruit.

However, if you’re a Friend of Argonne^TM and curiosity is getting the better of you, reach us at: contact@argonnecellars.com and who knows?