Our take
Owen Roe Abbot's Table Red Blend Washington Wine
- Style
- Red wine
- Size
- 750 ml
- Region
- Washington State
- Shelf barcode
- 0855741002048
Our take
What we make of this bottle
The name on this shelf says Washington, the state; Owen Roe's own site situates the wine more precisely, as a Columbia Valley red blend sourced from Yakima Valley vineyards. What the label does not settle is the blend itself: no grape names or percentages appear anywhere on the producer's product page for this wine.
Owen Roe's own vineyards page closes part of that gap. It names Abbot's Table as one of the wines drawn from two Yakima Valley AVA sites, Red Willow Vineyard and Union Gap Vineyard. Red Willow's planted blocks include Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Lemberger, Blaufrankisch, Merlot, Sangiovese and Syrah; Union Gap carries an even wider mix of varieties. That confirms where the fruit can come from, not the exact grapes or proportions in this particular bottle, which the producer has not published. The product page itself describes the finished wine as "bursting with notes of dark red fruit and baking spices," "well balanced with a long, lingering finish," and suggests it can be had now or cellared. No alcohol percentage or blend breakdown appears on that page either.
Owen Roe traces its own founding to 1999, when David and Angelica O'Reilly, who the winery says discovered a love of cool-climate Pinot Noir on California's Central Coast in the late 1980s, moved north to build a Pacific Northwest portfolio; the producer now works with a dozen vineyard sites across Oregon and Washington. We do not have a shopper rating for this wine. Our September 2026 checks found it in one store, at $28.99.
Our call: a reasonable pick if Owen Roe's own account, two named Yakima Valley vineyards growing the grapes behind the blend and founders with more than two decades in the Pacific Northwest, is documentation enough for a Washington red at this price. Pass if you want the blend spelled out in percentages or a shopper's rating to lean on; Owen Roe has published neither an alcohol percentage nor a varietal breakdown for Abbot's Table, and no rating has reached our record.
The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.
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Dated store checks, not a promise about your store.
- Fred Meyer, Portland, OR$28.99
The regular price can vary by store and date.
From the producer
Pacific Northwest winery since 1999
Owen Roe says it has been crafting wines in the Pacific Northwest since 1999, with its first vintage that year, and lists Abbot's Table as a Columbia Valley, Washington red blend.
Research status
What we are still checking
Our overview above draws on the dated store feed, shopper ratings, our region and grape research, and any sourced producer facts. We are still working to confirm the current release, the full producer record, and the bottle itself, and we update this page as we learn more.
Getting to know Washington State.
A Washington label can point to a large state blend or to a narrower AVA. Most vineyards are east of the Cascade Range, but the exact AVA still matters because elevation, wind, rain and frost exposure change across the state.
What the name means
Washington is a state origin, not one American Viticultural Area. Its wine regions include 21 federally recognized AVAs, some shared with Oregon.
How grapes grow here
The Cascade Range blocks much of the Pacific rain from eastern Washington. That creates generally dry growing conditions with warm summer days, cool nights and winter frost risk, while western sites have stronger marine influence.
What lies under the vines
Flood deposits, windblown silt, sand, gravel and volcanic material occur across Washington wine country. A state name alone does not identify one soil or vineyard setting.
How large the region is
- Recognized AVAs
- 21 wine-growing areas are listed by the Washington State Wine Commission.
- Label resolution
- Washington State is broader than an AVA, so the bottle or producer must establish a more specific place.
Places within the region
- Columbia Valley
- A very large AVA that contains many of Washington's smaller wine regions and crosses into Oregon.
- Yakima Valley and Walla Walla Valley
- Two established AVAs within the broader eastern Washington landscape, each with its own boundaries and local conditions.
Where this information comes from
- Store listing
- Price, package, product identifier. Checked Aug 14, 2026.
- Barcode
- The shelf barcode shown here is computed from the store product identifier. It has not been checked against a bottle.
- Method
- Every price, rating and fact here is a dated observation. How we check.