Wine of the Day, No. 411
Winemaker Joe Ibrahim fashioned the Willamette Valley Vineyards Whole Cluster Pinot Noir 2017 by pouring the bunches of
grapes into large stainless steel containers, laying on a blanket of carbon dioxide and allowing the weight of the clusters above to crush the grapes below, starting fermentation in an atmosphere free of oxygen. Called carbonic macerati…
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