14 Hands Red Blend Hot to Trot Washington Wine

This wine is named Hot to Trot. In our September 2026 checks it ranged from $10.99 to $18.49, which puts its low end among the cheapest reds we cover.

As of August 12, 2026, 26 shoppers have rated it 4.62 out of five, a touch under the 4.71 median for the wines we cover. The origin printed on the shelf is broad: Washington names a whole state rather than one district. The producer's own page for this wine narrows that to the Columbia Valley AVA. The state's official regional guide notes that most vineyards sit east of the Cascade Range, where the mountains block much of the Pacific rain, giving warm summer days, cool nights and winter frost risk.

14 Hands' own page for this wine calls it the company's best-selling red blend and gives its tasting note in the producer's own words: 'Aromas of cherry, red currant, and tea. Flavors of cherry pie, ripe berries, and plums, supported by a frame of refined tannins' with 'subtle notes of baking spice on a persistent finish,' finished at 13.5 percent alcohol. As with the rest of the range, the winery traces its name to the historic wild horses of eastern Washington, and current winemaker Zach Richardson builds toward what the producer calls wines that 'taste great' ahead of following convention; the blend's specific grapes still go unnamed on the page.

Our call: a fit for the shopper stocking an inexpensive red for a full table; its low end sits among the least expensive reds we track, and the producer's own page adds a stated tasting note and calls it the company's best-selling blend. Pass if the average matters more than the outlay; shoppers place it below the middle of the rated wines we cover, and the blend's specific grapes still go unnamed.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.