2019 Hiyu "Corvus" Columbia Gorge Red Wine, Columbia Gorge, Oregon, USA

2019 Hiyu "Corvus" Columbia Gorge Red Wine, Columbia Gorge, Oregon, USA

This is an incredibly complex and hedonistic bottle of Pinot and has an absurdly decadent texture for a wine with just 12% alcohol. This of course also means that it has an ethereal side and it’s fascinating to feel those qualities oscillate over the course of a bottle. 

$158.99
$158.99

There are 11 units left in stock.

ABOUT THIS WINE

This is a half acre parcel above the estate's pond that produces around a barrel each year. It’s right next to Moondog and planted to the same mixture of Burgundian grapes based on heirloom clones of Pinot Noir. In 2019 this is the riper and more baroquely textured of the two wines. This is an incredibly complex and hedonistic bottle of Pinot and has an absurdly decadent texture for a wine with just 12% alcohol. This of course also means that it has an ethereal side and it’s fascinating to feel those qualities oscillate over the course of a bottle. 

ABOUT THIS PRODUCER

Its leaders Nate Ready, a former high-profile sommelier (think award-winning restaurants like Thomas Keller's French Laundry or Frasca in Boulder, CO) and China Tressemer, a talented artist and culinary guide, have gradually built a flourishing mixed farm and tavern where not just vine and crops, but all sorts of natural life cohabit in what Hiyu calls “the wild side of permaculture”.

Their approach to viticulture is similarly wild, in the best sense: the estate is divided into many small blocks, each planted to a field blend from a different place or moment in the genetic history of the grapevine, from Alpine grapes to Southern Italy or Central Europe. This “IRL grape variety atlas”, consisting of a whopping 100+ different varieties and clones in total, is being transformed into boutique quantities of truly singular wines that Nate describes and contextualises using his vast tasting memory and cultural experience. There's a lot of freedom, art and philosophy involved at Hiyu Wine Farm.

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Grape(s) Pinot Noir
Farming Organic