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Sauvignon blanc is a variety that we feel shows strong promise in the future Willamette Valley wine narrative. A parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, and mate of Cabernet franc, it exhibits the same herbaceous and vegetal bell pepper compounds when not fully rip
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Limited Addition Pinot Gris/Pinot Noir Co-ferment, Willamette Valley, Oregon 2022, United States
The Vitae Springs vineyard in the Willamette Valley’s south Salem hills is an isolated, high-elevation, old-vine vineyard planted in 1977. The own-rooted and dry-farmed site is surrounded by dense conifer forests and is one of the latest ripening vineyard
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This was the grafting of Cabernet franc that launched the planting of the other three clones and the 10% alternative (for the Willamette Valley) varieties plantings. This block was planted in 1990 to Pinot noir but the rocky Jory and Nekia basalt soil str