Description
Grapes: Gewurztraminer & Pinot Noir field blend
Making of: this is a solera system-wine. Each harvest, the grapes are hand-picked and pressed together, then co-ferment with indigenous yeast. A small amount of the existing reserve wine is bottled by hand from each barrel every year and released, and then replaced with the next vintage.
Personality: “This is the seventh and most thunderous release of this Solera based on Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir with skin contact from a site plant in the 1960’s on a ridge above the town of White Salmon, WA. The material in this release includes wines from 2013-2020 including 600L ovals from 2017 and 2018 that were omitted from previous releases for additional aging. This is the most intense bottling yet. With each vintage the wine becomes darker, the aromas of fruit and herb more magically charged as they recede into the aging rose dgold core of the wine. As this happens the wine is miraculously gaining levity, its edges drawn toward freshness by the young wine and through the concentration of acids present in the old wine. It’s expanding in all directions, reaching out to gather more colors, herbs, fruit and rocks.”
