2022 Hiyu Wine Farm 'Aesalon', Columbia Gorge Ochota Barrels with notes of brioche

with notes of brioche

each molecule of this complex vintage is expressed with distinction and endurance

Dense and meaty while still retaining a sharp snap of acidity…it’s at once chewy and remarkably fresh

Grape clusters are left whole to begin carbonic maceration before being foot crushed to complete fermentation

His inaugural release was a tiny bottling from the 17 vintage from old vines in Avize

2022 Hiyu Wine Farm 'Aesalon', Columbia Gorge Ochota Barrels with notes of briocheFrom a field of Spanish and Portuguese white and pink varieties in the Southeast corner of the farm. Even after eight vintages this wine continues to evolve in form and confound our expectations. It began as something very exotic, wild and floral; a wine of hedonism in 2016 and 17. In the period from 2018 to 2021 the wine took on more power and rusticity. It become more profound, less purely fruity but also rustic, a country wine of meditation