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Big Salt Orange Rosé (2022)

VARIETALS
50% Pinot Gris 50% Big Salt blend (Muscat & Gewurztaminer)

NOTES
VINEYARD: The Pinot gris is sourced from Booth Hill in Hood River, OR (Columbia Gorge). Planted in the mid-1980s at just above 1500ft asl. The Big Salt blend is sourced from ten certified organic and practicing organic vineyards throughout Oregon. AVAs include: Columbia Gorge, Willamette Valley, Elkton, Dundee Hills, Rogue Valley. Average vine age of 35 years, with vineyard elevations spanning 250-1500 feet asl. The soils are a mix of volcanic ash and basalt.

VINIFICATION: Harvested on October 12th. The Pinot gris was de-stemmed into 1 ton fermenters where 5 gallons of skin contact Muscat and Gewürztraminer were added to spur native fermentation. After 2 weeks of daily pumpovers, the wine was racked into neutral barrel with 50% Big Salt where MLF was completed and the wine aged on its lees for 5-6 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

The combination of production methods resulted in a wine that doesn't exactly look or smell like rosé, nor is it as funky or extracted as an orange wine. It lives somewhere in-between.