2016 Viognier Cailloux Vineyard

I tasted the Cayuse wines this year with assistant winemaker Elizabeth Bourcier, along with Christophe Baron’s other projects (Horsepower and Hors Categorie) and Bourcier’s own No Girls wines, as Baron was in France working on his new Champagne Christophe Baron project. Long-time fans of the Cayuse wine will quickly notice that a number of top bottlings are missing in 2015. That’s because the wines bottled in May of 2017 turned out to have faulty corks, and thus the winery had to reimburse customers who had already pre-purchased these wines. In the end, only five Cayuse wines (i.e., those bottled two months later, in July of 2017, which included the 2016 Viognier and Grenache Rosé) were released this year.