Limited Addition "Vitae Springs Vineyard" Pinot Noir/Pinot Gris Willamette Valley 2022

This pretty, chillable red is fairly straightforward as far as the Ltd.+ experiments go: here red and "white" grapes provide refreshing cherry notes and go perfect with all your food essentials.

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Varietal: 50% Pinot Noir & 50% Pinot Gris

An isolated, high-elevation, old-vine vineyard, the Vitae Springs vineyard in the Willamette Valley’s south Salem hills vineyard was planted in 1977. The Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris grapes have grown side-by-side for 45 years, and have evolved to ripen in-step. Hand picked/destemmed and co-fermented to dryness, then aged in neutral oak vessels for approx. 9 months.

100 cases produced.

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Tasting Notes: Bright and juicy, it tastes like a harvest bounty of cherries, strawberries and sunshine, its late summer bounciness tempered by a refreshing orange peel bitterness and a jolt of minerality. It retains all of the Pinor Noir feels, but lightened, lifted by the Pinot Gris. Pinot lovers will totally enjoy this one. 

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About Limited Addition (Ltd. +): In 2015, our owner, Bree Stock, met enologist Chad Stock, the founder of Minimus wines. Chad shared the same philosophies about the potential of the Willamette Valley growing region for growing more than just a couple of grape varieties and also had a commitment to natural fermentation methods.

Limited Addition works with nearly a dozen vineyards and twenty different grape varieties to craft low intervention cool climate wines of distinction and character in the Willamette Valley.