Chris’ dad, Gary Figgins, started Leonetti Cellar in 1977, paying tribute to the Italian side of his heritage. Now Chris is paying a deeper tribute to his ancestry, exploring heritage southern ...

A COMPLETE VERTICAL of Leonetti Cellar’s legendary cabernet sauvignon — including perhaps the single most important wine ever made in Washington — will go up for sale at the 30th annual ...

LIKE HIS FATHER before him, Chris Figgins of Leonetti Cellar crafts some of Washington’s best, most-collectible and most-memorable red wines in Washington. The Walla Walla winery has long ...

The president and head winemaker for Leonetti Cellar in Walla Walla is responsible for some of Washington’s most collectible and most famous wines. He inherited a great obligation when he took ...

Andy Perdue Great Northwest Wine A complete vertical of Leonetti Cellars’ legendary Cabernet Sauvignon — including perhaps the single most important wine ever made in Washington — will go up ...

Figgins is president and chief winemaker of Leonetti Cellar, his family’s 43-year-old legacy winery in Walla Walla, as well as the Toil Oregon label in the Willamette Valley. He has plenty to ...

In fact, of the 11 historic wines Leonetti Cellar has placed on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list, five have been merlot, a fact that helped Washington establish itself as a top merlot producer.

Like the wine, it will be sold only on a mailing list, and it is not quite like anything else. The wine is Leonetti Cellars. Started by Gary and Nancy Figgins in 1978, it quickly established itself as ...

He owns the restaurant with his wife, Jill. She’s related to the wine-making Figgins family, which owns Leonetti Cellar in Walla Walla. He took her last name when they married in 2014.

Its 2008 Leonetti cellar Cabernet Sauvignon was served at a 2012 White House state dinner for the British prime minister. Seattle celebrity chef Tom Douglas gave then-Sen. Barack Obama a bottle of ...