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2022 Hiyu Wine Farm 'Pandion' Columbia Gorge, USA

$117.00

 

Winemaker’s note: “A field blend planted to Germanic varieties. It’s primarily Riesling and Furmint with smaller amounts of the grapes that would be grown in the vicinity of those varieties. This includes the Alsatian Cultivars like Muscat, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and Sylvaner, but also more unusual Austrian and Hungarian grapes like Harslevelu, Gruner Veltliner and Rotgipfler. In a sense, it is our version of a Gemischter Satz the field blends made in the Wien, the wine district in the heart of Vienna. Just as these are served in the traditional wine bars in the outskirts of the city, this is the perfect wine to drink with the food we serve in the tavern, especially with the transcendent cuisine of winter.”

Grapes: field blend of primarily Riesling and Furmint with smaller amounts of Muscat, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and Sylvaner, and also Austrian and Hungarian grapes like Harslevelu, Gruner Veltliner and Rotgipfler.

Vineyard: 0.2 hectares between Falcon Box and Chrysaetos on a gentle slope above the White Barn, on the original Hiyu estate. Soil: sandy Loam over Basalt.

Making of: hand harvest, direct press in a vertical basket press (most of the juice released by foot), spontaneous fermentation and aging for a little over two years in one old 400L cask and one 228L barrel. Unfined, unfiltered, zero SO2 added. 

2022:

Personality: “This is the third vintage and easily the most textural and exotic release so far. In past vintages the Austrian cepage has tempered the Alsatian grapes tendency toward hedonism but in this cool vintage, the warm fall has brought out the latter’s deep color and honeyed spices. The wildly botanical and savory mineral qualities of the Hungarian cepage hide beneath. This wine was always embedded with the possibility of reflecting our interest in channeling the magical quasi-religious qualities possessed by the wines of Marcel Deiss and Nicolas Joly.”

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