Our full-bodied, fruit-forward Merlot, with notes of dark chocolate and leather, honors the Cuyahoga River that is the life blood flowing through our city.
The Cuyahoga River is infamous for when its surface caught fire in 1969, but it has made a remarkable recovery since them. The name Cuyahoga is a Native American translation for crooked river; and it flows both south and north over its 100-mile course, ending at Lake Erie just 30 miles from its headwaters. The Cuyahoga River was the western boundary of the U.S. from 1795 to 1803, and when Moses Cleaveland first arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga in 1796, he chose that spot to locate a settlement that became Cleveland, Ohio.