A light yellow, a flirtatious blend of marsanne, roussanne, viognier and clairette, maybe also grenache blanc, that veers dangerously close to Mae West territory. Alchohol reports in at 13.6% but seems even higher, which is why I looked. Probably better a little more chilled than my room temp sample.
Secret Squirrel is the popular second label of a little-known A list winery called Corliss. Two red blends, one cab and the other syrah, first appeared around 2015 in small quantities, but word spread and they're now pumping out a lot of it, because it shows up in supermarkets as well as good wine shops throughout the state. It grabs passersby with it's intriguing label of a squirrel's face--pencil-sketched, wearing goggles--in close-up, and gets repurchased because the wines generally tower over their domestic brethren in the same $20-25 price range. I knew them from the very start, to borrow from--who's that guy?
-- and though production has increased hugely the quality hasn't diminished. Thru friends I have now tasted some with extended cellaring and can attest to the fact that so far, anyway, they drink well young and achieve interesting secondary development which not all WA reds do, they just fade. Though young new world wines are generally out of my interest zone these days, this is one of the better producers to run into at a party. I didn't even know they made a white until a friend poured this sample for me yesterday.