The Wine

As we began our assemblage of the vintage, one barrel stood out for the unique way in which it carried the wine. Nysa Pinots can be very complex, a dozen different stimuli igniting your senses. The barrel, a once-filled Taransaud of medium toast, was produced in Beaune after selection for extra-tight grain and three years of air drying. More so than other barrels in the cellar, this selection has been shaped and balanced by dense but notably fine-grained, suave tannins that focus and lengthen the wine for a most pleasurable experience.

Nestled in the Dundee Hills AVA, Nysa Vineyard is the youngest site in Lavinea’s portfolio of single-vineyard Pinot noirs. A high-elevation planting with southeastern exposure, the organically farmed vineyard sits on intense volcanic Jory soil with basalt bedrock 8 to 12 feet below the surface. A late-ripening block of 100% Pommard, planted in 2003, produces a very complex wine capturing the red fruit notes typical of Dundee along with wildflowers and exotic spice, completed by earthy tones with wonderful mineral textures and brisk acidity that carries a long vibrant finish.

Learn more about this wine during Preview Week, when Greg Ralston will present this wine during a virtual tasting session on July 28. Register here.

The Winery

Lavinea is committed to crafting wines that represent the highest expression and purest voice of site-specific terroir and advancing the reputation of Oregon Pinot noir and Chardonnay by bringing to the attention of the wine world the Willamette Valley’s finest vineyard sites. We believe the celebrated wine regions of the world achieved their stature by discovering and revealing, through exceptional wines, their greatest vineyards.

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