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Region: Oregon - Willamette Valley - Tualatin Hills
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Alcohol: 12.1%
Estate Grown, Hand Harvested, Spontaneous Fermentation, Dry Farmed, Organic, 250 Cases Produced
Notes on the Wine
The soundtrack to being outside, having fun, and feeling alive has to have this wine on it. Fresh watermelon, lime, and cherry 7-Up pop immediately, and baguette peeks out meekly, but decidedly. Great fizz, and alluring, layered mouthfeel and mousse, this wine has all the hallmarks of a fun, yet meaningful dive into undisgorged, natural sparkling wine.
2020 was insane in every way possible, including our weather. What started off promising, with dry days and cool nights through August, got stressful when high winds brought fire and smoke over Labor Day. We were lucky being as remote as we are, and never saw smoke on the ground. That said, small berries led to small clusters and low yields of very good grapes and lovely wines but a scant few of them.
Notes on the Producer
The farm is the heart of what we do, so we make it our duty to honor and protect it. Both Vineyard and Winery are certified sustainable by the third party verifier LIVE (low input viticulture and enology).
We make sustainable wine because it tastes better and it ensures that our work does no harm to the land, the people, or the greater community. An accumulation of small decisions in the vineyard and winery, from cover cropping to our long-standing commitment to screwcap closures keep us deeply engaged and actively making the purest wines possible.
B-Corp certified in 2017, Patton Valley joins a community of over 2000 businesses meeting the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance and accountability and aspires to use business to solve social and environmental problems.
