Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 Grower Champagne and Domaine des Comtes Lafon

and Domaine des Comtes Lafon stands as undoubtedly one of the world's greatest Chardonnay producers

this is an excellent unpeated Highland malt: un-chill filtered

south-facing site with clean citrus aromatics

with dark cherry and wild strawberry pulled taut by a coastal salinity and the sage and lavender growing on the hills around the vines

and a bone-dry finish that plays perfectly in any cocktail

Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 Grower Champagne and Domaine des Comtes LafonAsk an Oregon grower what makes Dundee Hills Pinot taste the way it does and they will point straight at the dirt: red volcanic basalt, iron rich and free draining. That rock is the whole idea behind this bottling. Jackson and Ayla Holstein started Granville in 2014, farming organically across the Dundee Hills and Eola Amity Hills, including the family vineyard Jackson grew up on, first planted back in 1972. Roughly a fifth of the fruit goes in as