Syncline Cellars
Syncline Wine Cellars is located along the Columbia River in southern Washington State. Our location, in the eastern Columbia River Gorge gives us a unique place for growing wine grapes. Our estate vineyard, Steep Creek Ranch, is located on a southern slope on the very eastern edge of the new Columbia Gorge AVA. Directly west of the vineyard and winery is a series of 300-foot cliffs rising up into the surrounding mountains straight out of the Columbia River. Locally known as the “Coyote Wall Syncline” and to geologists as the “Bingen Syncline,” this dramatic feature gives the winery its name. It is at this point that the rainy western Columbia Gorge transitions to the semi-arid eastern Gorge. We have kept production under 3,000 cases annually to ensure that we stay intimate with each barrel and every vine.
syn•cline \’sin-klīn\ n (1873) : a trough of stratified rock in which the beds dip toward each other from either side.