BIG FIRE PINOT NOIR
COLORS
pale, medium ruby
AROMAS
dark cherry – round and lush, tomato leaf, amaro, herbaceous, fennel
FLAVORS
cherry, black tea, amaro, greenhouse, forest floor
STRUCTURE
subtle tannins with medium weight. Round palate with soft acid
Food Pairing Ideas
- Roasted Chicken with Herbs de Provence
- Salmon with Anchovy Garlic Butter
We destemmed this fruit into one-ton fermenters in Mid-October 2018. We then inoculated with our proprietary concoction of cultivated yeast and fermented the wine to approximately 5 brix. Then it was delestaged (a kind of rack and return that softens tannins) and eventually pressed to tank 7 days later. We let this settle for 4 days, inoculated for malolactic fermentation and then racked the wine into 5-year-old neutral French oak barrels. We made the final vineyard blend I3 months later.It was racked from barrels back to barrels three times before bottling.
TECH SPECS:
Alc: 13.1%, TA: 5.3 g/L
pH: 3.72, RS: <0.2 (dry)
COMPOSITION:
100% Pinot Noir
VINEYARDS:
22.3 % Daffodil Hill Vineyard (Eola-Amity AVA), 50.5% Courting Hill Vineyard (Willamette Valley AVA), 15.8% Tukwilla Vineyard (Dundee AVA), 9.8% Balanza Vineyard (Dundee Hills AVA), 1.6% Riverside Vineyard (McMinnville AVA)
CASES PRODUCED:
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2018 BIG FIRE PINOT NOIR
$20/bottle
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2018 BIG FIRE VINEYARD INFORMATION
APPELLATION
Willamette Valley, Dundee Hills, McMinnville
COMPOSITION
100% Pinot Noir
VINEYARDS
22.3 % Daffodil Hill Vineyard (Eola-Amity AVA), 50.5% Courting Hill Vineyard (Willamette Valley AVA), 15.8% Tukwilla Vineyard (Dundee AVA), 9.8% Balanza Vineyard (Dundee Hills AVA), 1.6% Riverside Vineyard (McMinnville AVA)
ELEVATION
Varies
SOIL
Varies
CLIMATE
Varies
