Hiyu Smockshop Band Spring Ephemeral 2022 Magnum
Hiyu Smockshop Band Spring Ephemeral 2022 Magnum
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Hiyu Smockshop Band Spring Ephemeral 2022 Magnum

Hiyu Wine Farm
$160.00

Grape: Chardonnay, Grüner Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris
Vintage: 2022
Type: White

This white wine is from Smockshop Band, the Hiyu team's label for the wider Columbia Gorge, made from chardonnay, grüner veltliner, pinot blanc, and pinot gris grown at 1,400 feet on Underwood Mountain. The grapes are picked together, fermented on their skins as whole clusters for 9 days, foot-pressed in a wooden press, and finished in a wooden tank. As a Spring Ephemeral, it is bottled early, in the spring after harvest, to catch the wine while its fruit and floral side are at their peak.

Winery

Hiyu is a true mixed farm, with pigs, cows, chickens, ducks, and geese living among the vines at different times of the year and helping control the vegetation. Nate calls their vineyard management, deeply influenced by Masanobu Fukuoka, “the wild side of permaculture”. The property is divided into half-acre blocks, each planted as a field blend from a different place or moment in the grapevine's genetic history, with up to 150 different varieties and clones in total.

The name “Hiyu” comes from Chinook Jargon, where it denotes “abundance”, “plenty” or “big party”. Nate Ready worked as a sommelier at several fine establishments, including the lauded Thomas Keller’s French Laundry in Napa Valley. China Tresemer, the estate’s co-founder and agriculturalist, is also a talented illustrator who creates all the labels.

Manual harvest into small baskets, whole-cluster macerations, foot-treading and basket press, slow fermentation with indigenous yeasts only. Aged in old neutral oak barrels of various sizes. No fining or filtration, no sulfur at bottling.