Grüner Veltliner – Underwood, Columbia Gorge
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100% Grüner Veltliner from vines planted in 2007 on Underwood Mountain, a vineyard located at 1150 feet of elevation in the Heart of the Columbia Gorge AVA, and owned by Jack Brady. Jeff Lindsay-Thorsen forged a relationship with him, and as he was looking to make a food friendly white, that was a great fit. Left on the skins for 36 hours, aged in 30% neutral barrels and bottled at the end of February. Light bentonite fining, cross flow filtered. Bursting with aromas of just ripe peach, melon, green pineapple, spicy arugula, lemon balm, & wet stone. Flavors of peach, honeydew melon, pineapple, white pepper, & struck flint complement the wine’s brisk acidity. 12.2% alcohol.
Underwood Mountain Vineyard: To step onto this vineyard is to be transported to another time and place. One feels like they are in the Swiss Alps. The vineyard is planted on a light-reddish volcanic sandy, clay loam called the “Underwood Series” that has accumulated through millennia of loess deposits and the slow degradation of the long extinct Underwood Mountain volcano. Under this light quickly draining soil are basalt boulders ranging from as small as a fist to as large as a Winnebago. These special soils in conjunction with the truly cool sub-alpine climate make it the perfect site to grow aromatic white grapes. Located at the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountains, across the Columbia River from Hood River, Oregon, Underwood catches the last of the cooling maritime influence that dominates the Willamette Valley to the southwest. High up the mountain the vineyard escapes the heat and allows us to make focused mineral driven white wine.