Hiyu Tzum Clochán 2018
Hiyu Tzum Clochán 2018
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Hiyu Tzum Clochán 2018

Hiyu Wine Farm
$136.50

Grape: Carignan, Graciano, Nero d'Avola, and others
Vintage: 2018
Type: Red

This red wine is a co-fermented field blend modeled on Sardinia and southern Italy, built on carignan, graciano, and nero d'avola. It is made to sit between a very dark rosé and a light red. It is labeled Columbia Valley and is 13.5% alcohol. It carries no series name, which at Hiyu means the standard path of 18 to 36 months before release.

Game, leather, and damp earth sit under sweet cherry fruit.

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.