2022 Hiyu Wine Farm 'Aesalon', Columbia Gorge Ochota Barrels Grape clusters are left whole

Grape clusters are left whole to begin carbonic maceration before being foot crushed to complete fermentation

His inaugural release was a tiny bottling from the 17 vintage from old vines in Avize

with notes of brioche

The wine matured for five months then the barrels were gravity fed to tank and left to settle overnight

Dense and meaty while still retaining a sharp snap of acidity…it’s at once chewy and remarkably fresh

2022 Hiyu Wine Farm 'Aesalon', Columbia Gorge Ochota Barrels Grape clusters are left wholeFrom a field of Spanish and Portuguese white and pink varieties in the Southeast corner of the farm. Even after eight vintages this wine continues to evolve in form and confound our expectations. It began as something very exotic, wild and floral; a wine of hedonism in 2016 and 17. In the period from 2018 to 2021 the wine took on more power and rusticity. It become more profound, less purely fruity but also rustic, a country wine of meditation