Winemaker’s note: “Future award winner and a tangerine dream dipped in the finest sea salt, our Carbonic Pinot Gris is an orange wine built for everyone. Serve with tapas, spring days, summer nights and second line parades in your backyard.”
Grape: Pinot Gris
Vineyards: northern and coast-leaning parts of the Willamette Valley AVA.
Making of: Manual harvest. 7 to 14 days (depending on tank) of whole cluster carbonic maceration. Drained off, dug out and pressed back to a combination of stainless tanks (75%) and barrels (25%) to go dry. Racked to stainless for bottling. No fining or filtration, tiny amount of sulfur at bottling.
Personality: “Peach pie, young apricots, the markets of Marrakech… A perfect intro to “orange” or skin contact styles, this wine ends up somewhere between adult Tang and an Alpine daydream.”
Grape: Pinot Gris
Vineyards: northern and coast-leaning parts of the Willamette Valley AVA.
Making of: Manual harvest. 7 to 14 days (depending on tank) of whole cluster carbonic maceration. Drained off, dug out and pressed back to a combination of stainless tanks (75%) and barrels (25%) to go dry. Racked to stainless for bottling. No fining or filtration, tiny amount of sulfur at bottling.
Personality: “Peach pie, young apricots, the markets of Marrakech… A perfect intro to “orange” or skin contact styles, this wine ends up somewhere between adult Tang and an Alpine daydream.”
