Canyon's Edge Winery
From the Soil to the Bottle Canyons Edge Winery is pleased to bring you exceptional wines with exceptional value. Our wines start at our own premium vineyards located in the Horse Heaven Hills AVA in the south east part of Washington state. This rugged landscape was sculpted at the end of the last ice age 15,000 years ago. Huge cataclysmic floods ripped apart the land forming giant canyons and wastelands. When the waters receded new soils and minerals were deposited ending a journey that started several hundred miles away in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
Alder Canyon - Our northern border
Our vineyards are now rooted in this soil. The grape vines struggle to get their roots deep down into the rocky soils where a perfect balance of minerals await. A windy, arid land of constant sunshine rounds out the magnificent terroir* needed to grow exceptional grapes.
Award Winning Wines
As you pour a glass you can recognize this legacy in the wine. These rich, concentrated dark colored, wines can only come from grapes that struggled, producing small thick skinned grapes. The balance and strength of these special small grapes provides full acids, rich fruit qualities and soft tannins
*(Terroir - topography, soil, and microclimate )
John P. Haw - Our winemaker
John Haw is an Award-winning Winemaker. When
he speaks about wine, he speaks with the strength
of learning the business from the ground up.
Literally – at the ripe age of twelve he started
sweeping floors in a Michigan winery near the
family home.
More than three decades later, he has grown
to become one of the most honored winemakers
in the Northwest.
Combining a remarkable intuitive sense of what
needs to be done in each step of the winemaking
process with rigorous and detailed attention
to each step gives John the rare talent of making
wines of balance, grace, style, flavor and elegance.
We are fortunate to have his keen and experienced
palate and practices at our winery.
