Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 SO20231109 Yields are kept absurdly low

Yields are kept absurdly low at around 10 hectoliters per hectare

when Aude's ancestor Charles-Henri Génot broke a 20-generation pharmacist family chain to buy vines here in 1974

and full of various ripe fruits

the Margaux Second Growth that has entered a new era under Lawrence Wine Estates and Master Sommelier Carlton McCoy

creating a uniquely regional expression

Granville Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt 2024 SO20231109 Yields are kept absurdly lowAsk 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