2024 Troon Vineyard Druid's Red, Applegate Valley, Oregon
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25% Syrah, 21% Cinsault, 20% Mourvèdre, 19% Carignan, 15% Grenache
Troon’s Druid’s Red is meant to reflect the diversity of our organic and Biodynamic estate vineyard, planted to twenty different grape varieties native to the Rhône Valley and portions of South and Southwest France. These grapes were all planted with the intention of blending, allowing their textures and flavor profiles to overlap and interweave to create wines that are much more than the sum of their parts. The precise blend composition varies from year to year, reflecting each year’s unique vintage.
We have multiple clones of several of these varieties planted in multiple locations throughout our vineyard, leading to intriguing differences in flavor and aroma profiles, and a more staggered harvest schedule. This staggered schedule allowed us to co-ferment several of these varieties, resulting in additional complexity and nuance in the wine.
Fruit for the 2024 Druid’s Red was picked from September 19th (our early ripening Joseph Phelps clone of Syrah) through October 4th, 2024 (later-ripening Carignan and grenache), with many picks in between. Several of the lots were fermented with a percentage of their stems intact (whole cluster), and some of the grenache and Syrah were fermented and aged in our concrete fermenters, such that ~ 25% of this blend was fermented and aged in concrete.
As with all wines from Troon, no additives, acid or sugar adjustments, enzymes, or sulfur additions are used at crush. Primary fermentation occurs spontaneously with indigenous/native yeasts and bacteria in open-top bins or vats outside (and now in concrete tanks as well!). The wine is handled gently during fermentation with just one punch-down or foot-treading per day for roughly three to four weeks. The wine is then pressed off to age in neutral French oak barrels or concrete for roughly 10 months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered with a small dose of sulfur added at bottling.