From the winemaker: This is the eighth and final release of this Solera from an old vineyard perched high on a ridge above the Columbia. For the past few years we've know this moment would eventually come and we've been planning something special for the final iteration. Since 2018 we've made a small amount of a Ripasso style wine each year. Once it's completed fermentation we pass the white wine over the pomace from pressing the desert wine (another story of a wine to come!). This creates a secondary fermentation, more complexity and texture. Normally a Solera would be topped with young wine, but when we bottled version VII, in the absence of topping it with young wine, we filled the barrels our reserves of this older ripasso. The result takes this already meditative wine to an entirely other dimension.