Swick Wines Malbec Cinq A Six Columbia Valley

A 5th generation Oregonian, Joe Swick is making some of the purest, freshest and unadulterated wines in the United States today. He caught the wine bug while working at his local organic specialty food store in Portland. Soon after he landed at Owen Roe as a cellar hand, the beginning of a nine-year, fifteen vintage journey that took him to wine regions around the globe, before returning home to start his own winery.   Joe believes wines should be made simply and authentically, having nothing added or subtracted and most importantly, expressing a clear sense of place and vintage. Swick sources fruit from vineyards in the Pacific Northwest that farm organically or biodynamically and rarely uses sulfur at bottling. His wines are never filtered or fined.   His ability to produce wine this way comes from his vast experience and pragmatic approach. He uses a small percentage of new barrels every vintage in order to avoid Brett which is commonly found in older barrels purchased from conventi