The Marigny Pinot Gris Super Deluxe Cuvée 2024

A bit more brooding than the spring / summer release of Carbonic Pinot Gris, the Super Deluxe Pinot Gris takes its cues from the great wines of Friuli, Hungary and Georgia. Flinty, with deep stone fruit vibes and present tannins, it calls to mind crunchy maple leaves on sunny pavement, sun dried tomatoes with the stems still attached and sepia tone photos of your grandparents.

This single vineyard bottling was farmed organically in a vineyard certified organic by Oregon Tilth. 14 days of carbonic maceration in stainless steel, pressed to older, neutral-flavored French oak. SO2 added after malolactic was complete. Assembled and racked to stainless steel two weeks before bottling without additional SO2. The Marigny's Super Deluxe wines are what other winemakers might call “Reserve.” Wines with a little more time in barrel to smooth out the edges.

The Marigny winemaker Andrew Reginald Young left behind a career as a New Orleans rock drummer in 2012 to make low-intervention wines from cooler climate vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley. He works with a lot of carbonic maceration to keep the wines light, all fermented with native yeasts and minimal intervention in the winery.