Variety: Pinot Noir
Vineyard: Oak Ridge, Elder and Hiyu Vineyards
Location: Columbia Gorge, OR
Alcohol: 12.5%

Strawberry brick in color, black raspberry, burnished leather, and flamboyant dark spices on the palate. “While other Pinot Noir based wines that we make tend to be made as ephemeral, delicate infusions, this is closer to a traditionally styled wine. This feels closest to a Gevrey-Chambertin from an old-fashioned producer like Alain Burguet or Joseph Roty. This wine is extremely dense and meaty without losing any sense of varietal purity.”

A blend of eight barrels from all three parcels where they grow Pinot Noir (Oak Ridge, Elder and Hiyu). It was fermented entirely with whole clusters in open top vats, and aged for two years on the lees in old barriques.

Farmed organic, biodynamic. Smockshop wines are blends of grapes from different sites, and envisioned as accessible introductions to the beauty of the Columbia Gorge.