Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled ribeye steak, roasted rack of lamb, portobello mushrooms
✨ Technical Specifications
Owen Roe's Cabernet Sauvignon showcases the dramatic terroir of Washington's Columbia and Yakima Valleys, where hot, sunny days and cool desert nights yield grapes with intense concentration and balanced acidity. Sourced from acclaimed vineyards, this wine is crafted with minimal intervention, undergoing small-batch fermentation and aging in French oak. It captures the classic Washington Cabernet profile: rich dark fruits, structured tannins, and a signature touch of dried herbs and earth. The winery's name honors the 17th-century Irish patriot Owen Roe O'Neill, a nod to the passion and determination required to cultivate vines in this rugged, high-desert landscape.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1999 by David and Angelica O'Reilly, Owen Roe is named in honor of the 17th-century Irish patriot Owen Roe O'Neill. Operating across the Pacific Northwest, the winery bridges Washington’s Yakima Valley and Oregon’s Willamette Valley, celebrating cool-climate microclimates, diverse volcanic and windblown loess soils, and dry, high-sunlight ripening conditions. Following a brief period under corporate ownership, the O'Reilly family repurchased the estate in 2024 to reassert their founding independent vision. The viticultural and cellar philosophy prioritizes rigorous low-yield vineyard management, hand harvesting, small-lot fermentations, and judicious use of French oak barrel aging to preserve varietal clarity and site-specific typicity. Sourcing from benchmark terroirs such as Red Willow and DuBrul, Owen Roe produces critically acclaimed single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Chardonnay alongside value-driven cuvées under their Sharecropper’s and Corvidae labels, delivering structured, cellar-worthy expressions marked by vibrant acidity and deep concentration.
🍇 Grapes
Cabernet Sauvignon