Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 Grower Champagne Twelve days on the skins

Twelve days on the skins with a quarter whole clusters

A blend of 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay expressing the terroir of Ecueil and Villers-aux-Noeuds

This 2023 vintage captures crushed stones

south-facing site with clean citrus aromatics

with dark cherry and wild strawberry pulled taut by a coastal salinity and the sage and lavender growing on the hills around the vines

Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 Grower Champagne Twelve days on the skinsAsk an Oregon grower what makes Dundee Hills Pinot taste the way it does and they will point straight at the dirt: red volcanic basalt, iron rich and free draining. That rock is the whole idea behind this bottling. Jackson and Ayla Holstein started Granville in 2014, farming organically across the Dundee Hills and Eola Amity Hills, including the family vineyard Jackson grew up on, first planted back in 1972. Roughly a fifth of the fruit goes in as