Discovering Future Wines, on Can Wine Save the Planet?
Discovering the Wines of Hedges Family Estate
Day 11 of our 12 Days of Wine Celebration!
These vineyards are farming the soil, creating healthy environments with biodynamic and regenerative methods. This generates biodiversity, sequesters carbon, and, in turn, makes delicious wine.Wines for the Future.
These are wineries and vineyards that are doing the work, in their own way, to be sure we have a long, healthy future on our planet in which to enjoy wine!
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The Wines of Hedges Family Estate
They offer a variety of Estate wines and Cuvées. While Red Mountain is known for its Cabernet Sauvignon, I encourage you to pick up a bottle of their Descendants Liegeois Dupont Syrah. This wine comes from their Les Gosses vineyard. Or perhaps the Le Haute Cuvée, their top-of-the-line blend, which is primarily Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a wine that will age tremendously well.
Need something a bit lighter? Their DLD Le Rosé is a blend of the Rhône varieties Syrah, Mourvedre, Counoise, and Grenache and is delicious and light.
Links
You can find more on their website
https://hedgesfamilyestate.com/
We’ve written about them before and interviewed Sarah a few years ago.
Our recent visit is chronicled in our Harvest Diaries on Can Wine Save the Planet?
Hedges Family Estate in the Red Mountain AVA of Washington – The Harvest Diaries 2023
Hedges Family Estate & Sarah Hedges Goedhart
This is a family business. Tom and Marie Hedges began this winery and vineyard, but much of the work has now fallen to their children. Their son, Christophe, is the General Manager, and their daughter, Sarah Hedges Goedhart, is the head winemaker.
Sarah and her brother are passionate about caring for this land and the planet. Sarah got hooked on wine when she was going to school in Santa Barbara. She worked in a tasting room there, managed to do a harvest, and then found herself at Preston, an organic farm and winery in Healdsburg.
She and her husband then headed back to Washington to work with her brother and parents at the family winery. She worked on the garden, helped with hosting guests, and then worked as the Assistant Winemaker to her Uncle before taking over as winemaker when he retired in 2015.
Red Mountain in Washington’s Yakima Valley
The soul of this winery is in the Red Mountain AVA of Washington State. Sitting on the eastern end of the Yakima Valley, this little AVA is making some of the most sought-after wines in the state.
Tom’s roots were in this area, but he traveled the world in the produce industry and met Marie, who was from Champagne. They began a wine shipping business, and eventually, an opportunity came to purchase land here on Red Mountain before the world knew how wonderful this place was. They broke ground on the Chateau in 1995.
Why are the wines of Hedges Family Estate wines for the future?
“Why wouldn’t you be?” was Christophe’s answer when I asked him why they were biodynamic. For him, this is a no-brainer. This is about ethics.
Why would you not farm in the best way possible to leave the planet better for future generations? Why would you not farm in a manner that feeds the earth and the plants that are feeding you, or in this case, making delicious wine?
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