Value: $ 125
Enjoy this bottle of Windy
Oaks Pinot with family and friends.
The making of Windy Oaks
Estate wine begins in earnest after harvest, using classic Burgundian
techniques, with gravity feed and minimal handling. Because we are an estate
winery, our harvested grapes travel only a few hundred feet from the vines to
the winery. Throughout harvest and winemaking, the grapes are handled very
gently. A wine-writer recently described our approach as extreme minimal
intervention—we try not to manipulate the wine, and use no additives such as
enzymes or acidulation.
There are a variety of
styles of pinot noir, in part influenced by the quality of the grapes themselves
and in part based upon the winemaking techniques. Our unique site combined with
our winemaking approach result in a wine, which is complex and relatively
tannic, and will age well.
We complement our grape
quality by using top-quality French oak barrels. Because pinot noir grapes are
among the most sensitive to the way they are handled, we make wine in a way that
minimizes the amount of handling, and, as mentioned, relies on gravity
throughout the winemaking process.
Generously donated by Caleb
Baskins
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