Producer

Klickitat Canyon Winery is a small, family-run farm that creates organic, natural foods. Due to our topography and geography, we are best suited for a diversity of products. In our lower acreage, we grow fruit trees and vegetables. We use dry-farming practices to encourage seasonal effects and water conservation. Livestock provide the soil amendments we use for plant nutrients. Crop rotations and intercropping are our main efforts to reduce pest pressure. Allowing harvestable weeds to grow in our beds gives us extra potential and reduces damage to our main crops.

In our upper acreage we preserve habitat by means of oak woodland silvopasture and rotational grazing. Restoring habitat that was degraded by cattle and focusing on drought-tolerant native forage for livestock. These practices encourage biodiversity and create an environment that is healthier for all life. Our wines and vinegars benefit from this system as a unique signature of yeast is allowed to thrive in these conditions. Our wines are processed entirely by hand to reflect the true character of the Columbia Gorge Appellation.

At Klickitat Canyon Winery, we let the grapes make the wine – thus we use the natural yeasts found on the grapes and do not add any sulfites or other chemicals. The wine is permitted to develop on its own merits and is fermented completely to dryness before it is bottled. This process produces complex unfiltered wines that will please and surprise you.

Our vinegars are produced entirely from scratch using grapes and apples. We age many of them in oak barrels for several years before infusing them with fresh fruits and herbs. We grow much of this ourselves and support other local farms in the process.