Hiyu Perennial I
Hiyu Perennial I
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Hiyu Perennial I

Hiyu Wine Farm
$195.00

Grape: White Blend
Vintage: NV (BOTTLING I)
Type: White

This white wine carries no vintage, only the Roman numeral I, and is released under Hiyu's Perennial designation for older wines, chosen for how they change with time. Hiyu does not publish the varieties in it. It is 12.5% alcohol. Hiyu 'Perennial I' refers to the first edition in a series of multi-vintage reserve wines created by Master Sommelier Nate Ready and China Tresemer at Hiyu Wine Farm in Oregon’s Columbia Gorge. At Hiyu Wine Farm, the designation "Perennial" represents bottled wines produced using a perpetual reserve or solera-style system.

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.