2022 Scenic Valley Farms Skin Contact Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, Oregon
Regular price $23.00
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100% Pinot Gris
In 1970 Bob Zielinski and his wife, Pam, started their family on a piece of land in the Willamette Valley that would grow into Scenic Valley Farms. Today Scenic Valley grows over a thousand acres of pears, wheat, hazelnuts, hops, grass seed, and wine grapes. Bob’s son Bryan is now the Vineyard Manager. Scenic Valley practices sustainability and ethical farming methods with their small employed year-round crew such as estate beekeeping, solar powered energy, they are salmon safe and LIVE certified, even making their own barrels from trees that have fallen on the estate.
This orange-ish Pinot Gris is wild fermented 20% carbonic, 40% whole cluster press, and 40% skin contact with six months in 15% new estate harvested oak. A beautiful copper hue with aromas of lilies and bougainvillea A fleshy texture with peach, red berry, rhubarb and blood orange notes.