2018 LBJ

Pinot Noir

OR - Willamette Valley - Willamette Valley

$26.00 / 750 mL Bottle

Alcohol 11.5%

Only 40 cases made. The 2018 "ShelbyJ" (LBJ) is a whole-cluster, partial carbonic red Pinot Noir from Bracken Vineyard, a high-altitude baby vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA. **The wine will be bottled 4/29/20** This "future's" release is available now until April 29, to help with bottling costs. After bottling, the futures price expires and the retail price of $28.00 will apply. The origin story: In 2018 I decided to purchase fruit (for the first time) for sparkling wine from a good friend, Shelby Perkins, who had just purchased a baby vineyard with her husband Peter Harter. The fruit arrived in the same week that I realized I had a yield shortage in another vineyard I farm. I realized if I wanted to have enough fruit for a barrel of red wine, I could take Shelby's fruit, which had ripened quickly, and use part of it for my red cuvee instead of just for the sparkling I was planning. The resulting wine has a nice zippiness and a lovely peppy body from the long evening light at the Bracken Vineyard. For more info on the vineyard visit http://www.perkinsharter.com/ 2018 farming was done by Advanced Vineyards