Boushey Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2023
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, goat cheese crostini, grilled white fish
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary Boushey Vineyard in Washington's Yakima Valley, this Sauvignon Blanc is a testament to the collaborative genius of grower Dick Boushey and winemaker Ryan Crane. Boushey Vineyard, celebrated for its cooler microclimate and complex silt loam soils over basalt, yields fruit with remarkable natural acidity and mineral tension. Kerloo Cellars coaxes out these distinctive traits by utilizing low-intervention winemaking techniques, often fermenting and aging the wine in concrete eggs or neutral French oak. This method preserves the vibrant, citrusy core of the grape while imparting a beautifully textured, mineral-driven mouthfeel. The result is a sophisticated expression of Washington Sauvignon Blanc that balances Old World restraint with New World fruit purity.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 2007 by winemaker Ryan Crane, Kerloo Cellars takes its name from the echoing call of the sandhill crane, symbolizing Crane's calling to craft authentic, terroir-driven Washington State wines. After studying viticulture and enology in Walla Walla and honing his cellar craft at Forgeron Cellars and Va Piano Vineyards, Crane built Kerloo around meticulous fruit sourcing from esteemed, sustainably farmed vineyard sites spanning the Walla Walla Valley, Yakima Valley, and Columbia Gorge. His cellaring philosophy prioritizes minimal intervention, foot-treading, native fermentations, neutral oak, and concrete maturation to highlight purity of site and varietal transparency. Kerloo built a devoted following for its cool-climate Rhone-style expressions and vibrant single-vineyard bottlings, including Celilo Vineyard Chardonnay, Boushey Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc, and single-site Grenache, Syrah, and Grenache Rosé from benchmark crus like Upland and Painted Hills.
🍇 Grapes
Sauvignon Blanc