2022 Avennia Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain Washington 750 ml

Whether you compare Avennia's 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain to the cream of the crop in Washington or Napa Valley's blue-chip estate, it comes out looking quite impressive. It earned an impressive 95 points from Decanter, placing it alongside Joseph Phelps Insignia ($363), Fait-Main Beckstoffer Las Piedras ($234), and Pride Mountain Reserve ($170). 

Decanter lauded this as "a red-fruited beauty with impressive staying power" in their star-making 95-point review. We call it one of the smartest buys in collectible Cabernet from a marquee American winemaker.

Chris Peterson is one of the most critically acclaimed and respected winemakers in all of Washington—and this is one of his signature bottlings.

Chris made his name making profound Cabernet as the winemaker for DeLille—a legendary winery that a famous critic once called “the Lafite-Rothschild of Washington State”—before striking out in 2010 to make his own wines under the Avennia label. Since then, he’s earned a flotilla of high scores, not to mention a Winemaker of the Year award from Seattle Magazine—an enormous honor within the Pacific Northwest wine community.

Avennia represents Chris's personal vision—a chance to work with complete creative freedom on tiny-production wines from the vineyards he believes in most. Unlike his consulting work or larger-scale projects, these are wines where every decision, from vineyard selection to barrel choices, reflects his uncompromising standards and decades of experience.

His 2022 Cabernet is a towering Red Mountain wine that shows why Chris is one of the hottest winemakers out there. Grown on the Hedges and Avennia Estate Vineyards on Washington’s Red Mountain—perhaps the greatest red-wine appellation in the state—it’s a 100% varietal Cabernet that he makes in a tiny quantity: fewer than 15 barrels. After aging for 18 months in 25% new French oak, it was bottled unrefined and unfiltered.