"A crazy French man" named Christophe Baron settled in the Walla Walla Valley in 1997. Not that he would turn his back on his homeland, where his family has been making champagne for many generations, no, but everything was fine at home then as it is now. Cayues, named after an indigenous people whose name is derived from Cailloux, i.e. stones, is not just a name but a program, because the earth is strewn with stones the size of softballs - and reminds us of what? Exactly, of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. I am certain that Baron is the engine of the Washington wine world and is not only at the forefront with its wines under the Cayuse label, but is not resting on its laurels for a second, but is constantly developing. There is a lot of energy at play here!