Hiyu Noctua Perennial 2018
Hiyu Noctua Perennial 2018
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Hiyu Noctua Perennial 2018

Hiyu Wine Farm
$201.50

Grape: Prieto Picudo, Baboso Negro, Juan García, Touriga Nacional, Tempranillo, and others
Vintage: 2018
Type: Red

This red wine comes from a half-acre parcel between Draco and Corvus on the northeast plateau, planted to prieto picudo, baboso negro, juan garcía, touriga nacional, and tempranillo among more than 20 grapes. It was planted to make a dark, concentrated red with an unusually floral perfume. As a Perennial, it was held back and released as an older wine, chosen for how it changes with time rather than for early freshness.

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.