Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024
Six acres on a knoll nobody's heard of, tucked behind a peak that blocks the cold Pacific wind the rest of Oregon takes on the chin. That's Dux -- a small, low-lying Dundee Hills site at around 450 feet, planted in 2011 in classic red Jory soil, sheltered from the Van Duzer Corridor gusts by the hill just to its south. Less wind stress means gentler, more even ripening, and the Pinot that comes off it is perfumed and poised rather than muscular. Jackson Holstein farms it himself; he's a working vineyard manager who grew up in these hills, and his winemaking is deliberately unfussy -- native yeast, a portion of whole clusters, French oak, unfined and unfiltered. The name is Latin for 'leader,' which is a bold claim for a six-acre knoll. Taste it and you'll see the argument.
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Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024
Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024
Six acres on a knoll nobody's heard of, tucked behind a peak that blocks the cold Pacific wind the rest of Oregon takes on the chin. That's Dux -- a small, low-lying Dundee Hills site at around 450 feet, planted in 2011 in classic red Jory soil, sheltered from the Van Duzer Corridor gusts by the hill just to its south. Less wind stress means gentler, more even ripening, and the Pinot that comes off it is perfumed and poised rather than muscular. Jackson Holstein farms it himself; he's a working vineyard manager who grew up in these hills, and his winemaking is deliberately unfussy -- native yeast, a portion of whole clusters, French oak, unfined and unfiltered. The name is Latin for 'leader,' which is a bold claim for a six-acre knoll. Taste it and you'll see the argument.
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Six acres on a knoll nobody's heard of, tucked behind a peak that blocks the cold Pacific wind the rest of Oregon takes on the chin. That's Dux -- a small, low-lying Dundee Hills site at around 450 feet, planted in 2011 in classic red Jory soil, sheltered from the Van Duzer Corridor gusts by the hill just to its south. Less wind stress means gentler, more even ripening, and the Pinot that comes off it is perfumed and poised rather than muscular. Jackson Holstein farms it himself; he's a working vineyard manager who grew up in these hills, and his winemaking is deliberately unfussy -- native yeast, a portion of whole clusters, French oak, unfined and unfiltered. The name is Latin for 'leader,' which is a bold claim for a six-acre knoll. Taste it and you'll see the argument.
