2021 Unabridged Sauvignon Blanc

$45.00

Rise and run through trees
Emerging in a sea of green
Leaves lips salty

Our ‘Unabridged’ Sauvignon Blanc comes from Garnier Vineyard just east of Mosier, Oregon on the banks of the mighty Columbia River in the Columbia Gorge AVA. The soil here is shallow sandy loam with numerous basalt protrusions throughout the vineyard. Sunny, wind-blown and visually dramatic this site produces wines that are as vivid and striking as their environs. Hand harvested on September 4, 2020, the fruit for this ‘unabridged’ version of Sauvignon Blanc was slowly cold fermented on skins as ‘whole clusters’ for 8 weeks before transfer and pressing by hand to a cigar-shaped French oak barrel for 14 months on light lees until bottling in January 2022. Our unique cigar shaped barrel was crafted for us by Master Cooper Philippe Grillot of Atelier Center of France and is the same design he conceptualized many years ago with Didier Dagueneau for his renowned Sauvignon Blancs from the Loire region in France.

Tasting Notes:

A forest walk in spring time opening to a view of the sea. I love the expression of greenness here fresh and newly risen like fiddleheads, pea shoots, spruce tips and nettle. There is lime zest and ginger, bay leaf and sea greens, angelica, bee balm, cardamom and salt. This wine is expansive, mouthwatering and wide with a texture and acidity almost crystalline. It makes me think of fractals, an energetic geometry you can taste.