2022 Unabridged Sauvignon Blanc

$45.00

Spruce tips sea breeze sun
Elderflowers unfurling
Stones hum underfoot

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 21st 2022, 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 December 2023.  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
Elderflower, verbena and alpine herbs, this wine is a crisp and curious expression of delightfully moving parts. The palate is brisk and full of flavor, spruce tips, pomelo and gumdrop green.  And the travel is tactile, agile, glimmering and alive.  Earth and air are among the flowers here like walking between spring forest shade and saline ocean light, the horizon everchanging.