100% Muscat; Idiot’s Grace Vineyard in Mosier, Oregon; planted 2006; Columbia Gorge AVA; 23 cases produced; grown in soils from volcanic ash and loess over old flood deposits; brought up in steel; ABV 11.9%
We have a very small crop of Muscat, and over the years we have done all kinds of things with it– given it away, sold it, made it into gelato. Recently we’ve started concentrating on it a little more. We wanted to try some skin contact with it this year, so fermented it whole cluster for a week, then foot stomped it to break up the skins, then pressed it. That time with the skins gives a certain thickness to the aromatics of the wine. It has real tongue presence– not a particularly delicate creature– but is entirely lovely.
375 mL half bottle
