Orange Rose

• 50% Pinot Gris, 50% Skin-contact Big Salt
• basaltic/volcanic soils
• Elevation: 1,500 ft
• Harvested: 09/20/23
• Planted in the mid 80’s, this Pinot gris sits atop Booth Hill, in Hood River, Oregon. Just over 1500 feet in elevation, the volcanic soils of the site were unaffected by the Last Glacial Maximum 13,000 years ago
• Pinot gris is destemmed into 1-ton fermenters where 5 gallons of skin contact Muscat and Gewurz are added to spur native fermentation
• After two weeks of daily pumpovers, the wine has turned dark cranberry in color, at which point it is racked into neutral barrel with 50% Big Salt where ML fermentation with complete, and the wine will aged on lees for 5-6 months
• Bottled unfined, unfiltered
• 12.9% alc

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