- Organic / Biodynamic (uncertified)
- Average age of vines: 30
- Soil type: Vulcanic
- Fermented spontaneously using low-intervention
- Sulphites: No added sulphites: <10 mg/L
- Fining (clarification): Unfined
- Filtering: Unfiltered
- Suitable for Vegans and vegetarians
- Alcohol: 11.5%
- Residual sugar: <1 g/L
- Vessel type: Wood - Old oak
- Bottle weight: 470
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Place: On a cliff of basalt. Looking down donkeys graze in tall grasses beside the dunes. Color: The skies reflected in the purple skin of a ripe Italian Plum. Taste: Like walking into a perfumed thicket of blackcaps; cocoa dust, perfumed leaf, and jeweled fruit. Culture: Beyond the chateau there is a portal leading to a wilder time. Here peasants gather for a meal in the shade of the forest that encroaches upon the vine. Genetics: Before the dutch dredged the estuary.
This wine is made from a one-acre parcel at the western edge of the vineyard beside Solais and below Clochan. This part of the site is closest to the river, where the soils are a bit deeper and have more organic matter than the pure sand or basalt cobbles found in other parts of the vineyard. In 2016 we grafted the vines here from Syrah to a field blend of all the grapes you would have encountered in Southwestern France in the late Middle Ages: many clones of heirloom Cabernet and Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Tannat, Abouriou, Fer, Ste. Macaire, Manseng Noir etc.
The wine expresses itself as pure perfume, more like an enveloping cloud than a liquid. It was not what we expected when planting in such a warm place with these kind of grapes. It lacks the mundane aspects of fruit, acid and mineral that draw most wines to earth. Instead one is swirling with more aerial versions of these things. It smells like a thicket, bramble or hedge; of leaves dense with aromatic oils, ripe raspberry, blackberry and plum, the pollen laden legs of bees and red dust that somehow contains the essence of summer.- Oregon, United States
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Tzum Feis, 2022
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