Etheric Wine Workshop Skin Contact Pinot Gris 2022 750ml

Sustainable. This is the Italian Ramato style of Pinot Gris, a light “red” wine with waxy phenolic structure. The grapes are sourced from 5 different vineyards which are on both volcanic and sedimentary soils. All of the Pinot Gris is in contact with the skins for some amount of time. For 30% of the grapes, we simply foot tread the grapes in their picking bins and let them rest for 24 hours under a veil of co2 to keep the oxygen away. After 10-12 days they then pressed the grapes and fermented the juice in stainless steel tanks. The remaining 70% of the grapes are hand sorted and fully destemmed into small fermenters. The fermentation is started with a “pied de cuve”, we manage the fermentation with a mix of punch down, pump over and delestage. The wines finish fermentation in stainless steel tanks, then they are racked off the fermentation lees to another tank where they complete malolactic fermentation on fine lees. The wines are aged 3 months before bottling. Since there is no so2 in this wine, we go to bottle with a fair amount of co2 bound in the wine. We also keep the wine slightly reductive in order to preserve the fruit. Bottled with no added so2. <5 So2 mg/L