Oregon's Illahe Viognier

Oregon's Illahe Viognier

Facts About The Columbia Valley

  • Oregon is one of the United States' most important non-Californian AVAs.

  • Oregon's Willamette Valley is an ideal site for growing cool-climate, aromatic white varieties, much like Northern Alsace in France. Think cranberries and earth, not a CA fruit bomb.

  • Sub AVAs: Dundee Hills, McMinnville, Eola-Amity Hills, Yamhill-Carlton, Chehalem Mountains, Ribbon Ridge, Van Duzer Corridor

  • The best Oregon Pinot Noirs are regularly compared to their significantly more expensive counterparts from Burgundy.

  • Pinot Noir plantings 77% in Oregon

  • The valley follows Willamette River: East are The Cascade mountain range and West are Oregon Coast Range - runs between the Willamette and the Pacific Ocean.

  • Climate: Maritime Coast Range blocks a lot of the Pacific influences but ocean breezes seeping in through a series of gaps in the mountains. Rain in the winter, hot dry summers with cool evenings

Illahe Viognier 2019 from Willamette Valley, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

πŸ‘ Pale watery lemon color

πŸ‘ƒ Aromatics jump out of the glass with honeysuckle, orange blossom, pear minerals, peach, saline- musty low tide πŸ˜‚

πŸ‘„ Rich in flavor yet fresh and creamy in texture, honeysuckle, orange blossom, pear, minerals, peach, mango, beeswax, saline , nectarine, apple all enveloped with soft acid and body with medium alcohol.

Avinyo Cava Reserva 2017

Avinyo Cava Reserva 2017

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