Vin Gris
Current Vintage: 2007
This is bright, refreshing, invigorating wine. It's complex and flavorful, full of strawberry and raspberry flavors, sports a crisp acidity with a richness that testifies to the high caliber Carneros Pinot Noir used to produce Vin Gris.

Vin Gris is the name used in Burgundy for a delicate, refreshing pink wine made from Pinot Noir. Ours is exactly this.

We make a vin gris saigné, a wine made from juice “bled” from the Pinot Noir tanks before the fermentations begin.

Grapes that come in from vineyards where yield was slightly higher than optimal become candidates for Vin Gris. Removing juice destined for the Vin Gris has the effect of concentrating what remains in the tank while providing us the juice to create this brilliant, refreshing, thirst-quenching wine, perfect for spring and summer sipping. The Vin Gris juice we bleed off is placed in older French oak barrels to ferment dry, is then bottled in late winter and finally released every year on April Fools Day, not more than seven months after it was harvested.

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