Un - 2018 - Kate Norris et Thomas Monroe

100% Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley region of Oregon. It is a blend of purchased grapes from several vine parcels cultivated organically or biodynamically. The grapes are harvested by hand by the Division Wine team, and come from the vineyards of Johan, Eola Springs, Cassin, Bjornson, Armstrong, Redford Wetle and Temperance Hill. The terroirs are therefore all very different, and include a diversity of soils – volcanic basalt, marine sediments, fragmented granite… – which accounts for the richness of this cuvée. The grapes from each parcel are fermented and matured separately, with a large proportion kept as whole bunches. The wine is matured 8 months in French oak barrels that have seen several wines, then blended and aged an additional two months in cement vats before bottling. Neither fined nor filtered, and just a microdose of sulphur.