North America | Oregon | Eyrie Vineyards | Trifolium 2020 Dundee Hills

Trifolium 2020 Dundee Hills

VARIETALS
77% Pinot Noir, 15% Trousseau, 8% Pinot Meunier,

NOTES
VINEYARD: Sisters, Outcrop, Roland Green, The Eyrie, and Daphne. Trifolium combines all three of the red varieties grown on Eyrie’s 5 certified-organic estate vineyards. Farming is certified organic, but Jason and his team take this only as a starting point. Viticulture at all of the Estate vineyards follows the precepts of regenerative no-till farming, with strict attention paid not just to the vines but to the healthy networks of soil organisms that support them. Not only does this approach avoid the need for artificial irrigation, it also nourishes the vines without the need for additional fertilizer, and captures atmospheric carbon.

VINIFICATION: Picked by hand, the Trifolium was de-stemmed and put into a variety of fermenters to undergo native primary fermentation. Barrels are mostly neutral: for this vintage 17% were new. Having undergone native malolactic fermentation and aged for almost 2 years, the 2020 Trifolium was blended after 28 months, racked once without filtration, and then bottled and sealed under Diam cork.