Our Frenchmen Hills Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is aged in French and American oak for 14 months. Firm structure and fruity tones shape the palate. A power Cab with a fruit forward new world style appeal.

There’s a surprisingly bright quality to this wine from start to finish with raspberry, cranberry, and pomegranate flavors. Underripe plum adds to a textured, grippy finish that also carries earthy notes and a hint of minerality. Try this wine with a variety of beef entrées including herbed roast beef, smoked brisket or pot roast and buttered mushrooms.

100% Merlot sourced from Columbia Valley, WA. Inky purple with ruby edges, this Merlot has incredible fingers indicative of its higher altitude production location. Notes of cherry, strawberry, and rhubarb define a pungent nose. The fruit carries onto the palate with the notes of sour cherries, well-defined tannins, and possibly a hint of blueberry running in the background. A very approachable Merlot, but with enough muscle to last five years or more, this wine bats above its weight and cost.

This wine is gorgeous on all counts, from the eye-catching frosted etched bottle to the striking shade of jewel-like garnet Syrah within it. Fresh field strawberries lead off, with additional flavors of Jolly Rancher watermelon and crisp green melon throughout. There's also some nice, steely minerality to accentuate the big splash of finishing acidity. It makes a great starter wine - especially during the appetizer course - and it pairs perfectly with prosciutto, which really brings out the wine's fruit component and, perhaps, a suggestive hint of sweetness.

This easy-to-drink Malbec is a controlled explosion of fresh berry aromas and flavors. Blackberry, Marionberry, and raspberry predominate, and the fruit is perfectly balanced with just the right amount of acidity and tannic structure with touches of bramble and forest floor. There’s absolutely no reason to feel guilty about pouring yourself a second glass and enjoying this amazing wine all on its own. Aged in 100% French Oak barrels for 14 months.

91 Points - James Suckling.com 2024. A lovely, creamy texture and luxurious, deep, blueberry and milk chocolate flavors make this wine mouth-coating and rich. Softly but firmly tannic, it will benefit from more aging. Best after 2026.

Gold 90 Points - Savor NW 2024

New Release! 100% Pinot Noir sourced from Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley, WA.

The first red Pinot Noir outing from Victor Palencia since 2015, this Dia de Los Muertos edition wine gleans with beautiful purple to ruby edges – a depth of color that is fun to experience in a Pinot Noir. Strawberries, cherries, and raspberries dominate the nose with just a hint of vanilla from the 100% new French oak used to produce this wine. Tart red fruits and just a hint of rose run in the background with punchy but not overwhelming tannins. The finish lasts for a while making it one of the most fun Pinots you will find in Washington State.

90 Points James Suckling.com 2024. This is a spicy, rich pinot with notes of chocolate, oranges, cherries and spiced plums. It’s medium- to fullbodied, plummy and tangy. Drink now. Screw cap.

Bronze-pink with a very delicate bubble character and size, the nose is very slightly strawberry and raspberry. The palate pays you back with more recognizable cranberry and raspberry elements, some lemon lurking in the back palate, and an interestingly long finish for a sparkling wine. The wine has enough acid to make the mouth pucker, immediately giving a sense of refreshing completeness.

A beautiful almost ethereal pink defines the color of the wine, with the delicate nose of strawberries and just a hint of cranberry. On the palate the typical delicate bubbles of the Monarcha style leave the mouth fresh with bright red fruits, a very slight hint of tartness, and acid to balance out the overall experience.

Gold 91 Points - Savor NW 2024

Around the World Supper Club Series tour of South Africa!

Join us Friday, May 3rd for a seated 5-course supper club dinner focusing on a tour of beautiful South Africa prepared by Chef Frank Magana & paired with Palencia and Monarcha wines.

5pm to 6pm will be Social Hour with Maize fritters with salmon, paired with 2023 Monarcha Sparkling Rose of Pinot Noir. The first course begins at 6pm or sooner if everyone has arrived.

21 & over. Wine club member pricing is $65 per person. Members: please be sure to login to your wine club account when purchasing your ticket to see the reflected discount & to add to cart. Tickets will be open exclusively to club members through 4/19 then open to the public. Non-member tickets are $80.  

Held at Monarcha Winery Tasting Room: 421 E. Columbia Dr, Bld. A140 Kennewick WA 99336.

*Please note: When your reservation is purchased for this event, we will have a RSVP list with the name & number of tickets you purchased. There are no physical tickets to bring or pick up. All seating is family style, tables will be shared & inside seating. Email info@palenciawine.com to request your seating next to another ticket holder. We are unable to offer menu substitutions. Tickets are non-refundable but fully transferrable.

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Social Hour Appetizer

Mfino Fritters

Maize fritters with salmon

Paired with 2023 Monarcha Sparkling Rose - A beautiful almost ethereal pink defines the color of the wine, with the delicate nose of strawberries and just a hint of cranberry. On the palate the typical delicate bubbles of the Monarcha style leave the mouth fresh with bright red fruits, a very slight hint of tartness, and acid to balance out the overall experience.

Gold 91 Points - Savor NW 2024

1^st Course

Bunny Chow

Chicken & chickpea curry

Paired with 2023 Palencia Sauvignon Blanc - Winemaker Victor Palencia has always excelled at Sauvignon Blanc, and this release from the Royal Slope AVA carries an air of style and sophistication that takes it to a whole new level. It opens with generous flavors of starfruit, white plum, honeydew melon, and stone fruits that seamlessly glide into a crisp finish with accents of orange zest.

2^nd Course

Boerewors, Pap & Sous

Sausage, porridge & sauce

Paired with 2016 El Viñador Grenache - This special library pour is 100% Grenache from Wahluke Slope & has a medium to full weight in taste, this Grenache is fruit-forward and aromatic with crisp acidity, providing scents of ruby red grapefruit with lots of cherry and licorice flavor.

3rd Course

Denningvleis and Geelrys

Lamb stew & yellow rice

Paired with 2017 El Viñador Petit Verdot - Fermented in small vat