Variety: Chardonnay, Grüner Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris
Vineyard: Underwood Mountain
Location: Columbia Gorge, OR
Alcohol: 11.5%

Tastes of melon, long pepper and green high mountain oolong.

The Gruner, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc were picked together, then were fermented on the skins whole cluster for 9 days, pressed by foot in a wooden press back into a wooden tank to complete their fermentation “en cuve” before barreling back down into smaller old casks to age. This was bottled early, without sulfur.

Vineyard is Certified Organic on Basalt soils. Average age of the vines is 20 years. This is their first wine from a site at 1400 ft. on the west side of Underwood Mountain. The site was organically farmed prior to its purchase a few years ago and the farming is now regenerative with animal integration, minimal mowing, and a wide variety of plant life in different states of growth beneath the vines. Underwood Mountain is an extinct shield volcano with South facing slopes looking straight down on the Columbia.