Hors Categorie Vineyards is new winemaking venture from the Christophe Baron, one of Washington state’s most enterprising and admired winemakers. Baron founded Cayuse Vineyards in Walla Walla Valley in 1997, and since then he has also started Horsepower Vineyards and No Girls Wines. In 2005 Baron discovered another Eastern Washington site that he believed had outstanding vineyard potential. He cleared and planted the 2.5-acre vineyard, which he named Hors Categorie, a French term meaning “in a class of its own.” The debut wine was a 2014 Syrah that the Wine Advocate compared to “a young Hermitage la Chappelle from Jaboulet…”