As the name suggests, the fields here are plowed using horsepower alone.
Christophe Baron, a vigneron (wine grower) from Cayeuse, has become the envy of wine connoisseurs around the world.
In his grandfather's time there were horses in every field.
Christophe was not only the first to adopt biodynamic practices in Walla Walla, but also the first to use horses for farming.
This field is characterized by its narrow, dense planting, which means that only horses can enter.
This is a rare label created by the Champagne genius Christophe Baron, who succeeded Cayeuse, and the fields are cultivated using biodynamic farming methods, entirely with horse power, without the use of any herbicides, chemical fertilizers, pesticides or fungicides.
Christophe's team represents tradition and history, and continues to write that history today.
This wine is Christophe's connection to his roots.
It is also a tribute to traditional techniques and family.
Like the Earth, it embraces all things, old and new.
That's Horsepower Vineyards.
Owen Bargreen 96 points This wine comes from a terroir that combines ancient cobblestones and silty loam soils.
The wine was aged for 15 months in neutral French oak barrels, revealing rocky soil characteristics on the nose.
Aromas of asphalt, salted black olives, dark currants and espresso.
On the palate, brilliant freshness fills the mouth, with marionberry and wild blackberry fruit flavours perfectly balanced by very savory notes of stone and salt.
Furthermore, when the wine is exposed to air, the characteristics of the loess soil also become apparent.
This beautiful wine is already incredibly drinkable and will continue to be enjoyed for another 8-10 years.
Best drinking time is from 2022 to 2030.
This vineyard was planted in the ancient riverbed of the Walla Walla River on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley.
The topsoil is 30-46cm thick and is a mixture of silty loam and basalt boulders.
Beneath this lies a layer of purely compressed cobblestone, more than 30 metres deep in some places.
The vineyards have been farmed biodynamically since 2013 using Belgian and Percheron draft horses.
Vinified with 80% whole bunch grapes and aged for 15 months in neutral 600 litre French oak puncheons.
Horsepower is a cult wine from Washington State that uses 0% new oak barrels.
Horsepower Vineyards is a rare wine produced by Champagne genius Christophe Baron, who succeeded Cayeuse.
The fields are ploughed entirely by horse power.
Christophe's team represents tradition and history – and continues to write that history today.
This wine is Christophe's connection to his roots.
It is also a tribute to traditional techniques and family.
Like the Earth, it embraces all things, old and new.
That's Horsepower Vineyards.
Vigneron Christophe Baron first began practicing biodynamic farming in Washington's Walla Walla Valley in 2002.
Horsepower does not use any herbicides, chemical fertilizers, pesticides or fungicides. They work their vineyards with five horses, using vineyards trained to a single stake (called "sur echalas" in French) in a space of just 0.9m x 0.9m.
As the eldest son of Baron Albert, a Champagne House with a Hundred Years of History, Christophe's family has been farming the land in France's Marne Valley since 1677.
Until 1957, all vineyard work was done by horse.
Horsepower represents a return to this tradition, to an artisanal simplicity and purpose that has now been all but lost.
It's a window on the Old World, rooted in the New World.
Day in and day out, the only sound to be heard across all three fields is the thumping of hooves, a tradition that continues to plough and protect Horsepower's stony fields.