{"product_id":"iruai-shasta-cascade-red-wine-2023","title":"Iruai Shasta-Cascade Red Wine 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis blend of 40% Trousseau, 25% Pinot Noir, 20% Gamay, 10% Mondeuse and 5% Blaufränkisch kind of encapsulates the brilliance of what Chad and Michelle are after at Iruai. It's super fragrant, precise, high-toned, berry-fruited, peppery, savory and extremely light on its feet, just like a proper Savoie or Jura red that it aims to emulate. It does so with that sunny California make-up and wild, Shasta spirit, of course. Notes of marionberry, mezcal, luxardo cherry, smudge stick and violets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIruai's Shasta-Cascade red blend takes an Alpine inspiration with roots in both the Trinity Alps of northern California and the Shasta-Cascade range of southern Oregon. Considered a mythical winegrowing region even still, it bears much resemblance to the French alpine reds that are grippy and peppery, yet fruity and bitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA love letter to the winery’s wild home in Scott Valley, this wine pioneers a sense of place that channels a vast mineral range, a savage elevation and a generous beauty. Trousseau brings the blood orange tang, Monduese adds high toned black fruit and a peppery perfume, while the Gamay rounds things out with a bitter kick and savory structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIruai (pronounced “eer-oo-eye”) is a boundary-pushing nomadic natural wine project from Chad and Michelle Westbrook Hinds, based in the mystical Shasta-Cascade mountains in the Siskiyou wilderness of far northern California. Their wines blend Alpine grape varieties, wild terroir and natural winemaking in a style they jokingly call “Californian Alpine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey seek to make wine with a sense of place by employing no additives and removing no character. Their goal in the vineyard is to let the vines thrive like they would in the wild, and in the cellar, to shepherd each ferment through its own natural development and evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iruai","offers":[{"title":"750 ml","offer_id":51634423136573,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/2931\/0781\/files\/Iruai-Shasta-Cascade-Red-Wine-2023.jpg?v=1777149096","url":"https:\/\/shopgeraldines.com\/products\/iruai-shasta-cascade-red-wine-2023","provider":"Geraldine's Natural Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}