river stories.
release 17. September 2022
release 17 wines
Domaine de l’Ecu Ensemble 2020
Grapes: 100% Melon de Bourgogne
ABV: 12.49%
Region: Pays Nantais, Loire Valley, France
Winemaker: Claire & Fred Niger
Viniculture: Organically-farmed since early 1980s
Winemaking: Direct press, 24 months on lees
Loop de Loop 2020 Borderline Red
Grapes: 100% Pinot Gris
ABV: 12%
Region: Columbia Gorge, Washington
Winemaker: Julia Bailey Gulstine
Viniculture: organically farmed
Devium “Sans Soufre” Mourvèdre, French Creek 2020
Grapes: 100% Mourvèdre
ABV: 12.5%
Region: French Creek Vineyard, Yakima Valley, WA
Winemaker: Keith Johnson
Viniculture: Organically farmed, low-intervention viticulture, hand-harvested
Winemaking: Foot crushed, 100% whole cluster fermentation, four weeks of maceration, 8 months aging in neutral oak.
Gonzáles Bastías País en Tinaja 2020
Grapes: 100% País (also known as Mission)
ABV: 13%
Region: Maule Valley, Valle Central, Chile
Winemaker: Jose Luis Gomez Bastías
Viniculture: Organically farmed, and hand-harvested.
Winemaking: Like the viticulture at Bastías, everything is done by hand. Grapes are hand-harvested, pressed/crushed through wooden reed slats, and transferred to clay amphorae to ferment with wild yeasts
Royal Tokaji Dry Furmint 2019
Grapes: 100% Furmint
ABV: 10.6%
Region: Tokaji, Hungary
Winemaker: Máté Varga
Viniculture: Sustainably farmed, and grapes are hand-harvested
Winemaking: This wine was direct pressed in whole bunches, then transferred to a combination of Hungarian oak barrels and stainless steel tanks. Roughly 15% of the oak is new each year
Domaine de Guiraud “Les Sables d’Arène” Lirac 2017
Grapes: 100% Grenache
ABV: 15%
Region: Lirac, Rhône Valley, France
Winemaker: Marie & François Giraud
Viniculture: From a plot of organically-farmed vines planted in 1950, harvested by hand
Winemaking: Aged 6 months in concrete (2/3) and neutral French oak demi-muids (1/3)