Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 SO20231109 and full of various ripe

and full of various ripe fruits

is Valtellina's standard-bearer for tradition

aged in wood

with a cellar carved straight into the tuffeau bedrock beneath their feet

Yields are kept absurdly low at around 10 hectoliters per hectare

Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 SO20231109 and full of various ripeAsk an Oregon grower what makes Dundee Hills Pinot taste the way it does and they will point straight at the dirt: red volcanic basalt, iron rich and free draining. That rock is the whole idea behind this bottling. Jackson and Ayla Holstein started Granville in 2014, farming organically across the Dundee Hills and Eola Amity Hills, including the family vineyard Jackson grew up on, first planted back in 1972. Roughly a fifth of the fruit goes in as