The Wines

Driving along the Oregon side of the valley, vigneron Christophe Baron spotted a recently plowed field filled with softball-sized stones — immediately reminiscent of the great vineyards of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Halfway around the world from where he'd grown up, his idea for a domaine focused on world-class Rhône wines was born.

Since 1997, he has farmed nearly 75 acres using biodynamic methods focusing on Syrah alongside Grenache, Tempranillo, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Viognier. With extremely limited production, these wines have become collector's items sought the world over, earning multiple 100-point scores and establishing this corner of the Pacific Northwest as arguably the country's most distinctive terroir.

No Girls was created to champion women everywhere. The name nods to Walla Walla’s historic bordellos, where the phrase was painted on walls to mark their closure and the broader cultural shift toward women's rights. Led by Cayuse Vineyards Resident Vigneronne Karen Gasparotti, the estate La Paciencia Vineyard, is the heart of No Girls. Grenache, Syrah and Tempranillo are farmed using biodynamic methods. The wines reflect finesse, elegance, and are full of character. No Girls is a wine powered by the strength and resilience of women.

Horsepower is Cayuse vigneron Christophe Baron's homage to craft and tradition — a celebration of the timeless connection between plant, animal, and man. An homage to his family's use of horses in their champagne vineyards until 1957, Christophe was the first to revive draft horse farming in the Walla Walla Valley. Across four ultra-high-density vineyards, Belgian and Percheron draft horses tend to the Syrah and Grenache vineyards, which are farmed using biodynamic methods. Extremely limited in production, these wines have earned perfect 100-point scores and worldwide collector status.

Hors Catégorie is Christophe Baron's American jewel in Walla Walla Valley's North Fork, a rare terroir planted entirely to Syrah in 2011 on a steep, fragmented basalt slope reaching 60 degrees. Naturally split by aspect, the darker "Côte Brune" and lighter "Côte Blonde," Baron insists on blending, never bottling separately. "The best wine is always the blend."

An exercise in heroicviticulture, farmed entirely by hand with the aid of a winch, this site yields wines of remarkable elegance, rivaling Northern Rhône's finest and proving Walla Walla's position among the world’s finest.

Raised in his family’s Champagne house, Baron Albert, Christophe Baron trained in Champagne and Burgundy before discovering the stony soils that inspired Cayuse Vineyards in the Walla Walla Valley. Returning to France in 2014 to explore his roots, Christophe launched a limited-production Champagne project from select parcels of Pinot Meunier in the Marne Valley, planted between 1925 and 1969. Guided by a “single vineyard, single vintage, single grape, no dosage philosophy,” Christophe creates four distinctive Grower Champagnes bottled exclusively in magnums.