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.
