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Winemaker's Tasting Notes
This is a robust, bold bubbly! The aroma has ripe Santa Rosa plum fruit blended with rich toasted biscuit and cracked yeast maturity. The flavor is very robust of plum and apple fruit settling on a multi-layer slab of slate-like minerality. The finish is rich, creamy and yeasty with ripe Pinot Noir fruit character driving the impression of this wine on down the long, highway of one’s gullet.
Winemaker's Production Notes
The 2003 vintage could be described as a bit of Yin and a bit of Yang leading to a lot of Whoopee! The Yin came in the form of a September week of wet weather. Some berry splitting and a couple of potential mold issues would have multiplied our grief if another week of wet weather had ensued. Then Yang kicked in with a vengeance in the form of a very hot, dry east wind during the week of 22nd September. 95F on September 27th is unprecedented in our cool climate region! Our fears of splitting and mold were replaced by raisining and shriveling. The solution was to start up our irrigation system in the best vineyard blocks replacing evaporated berry and vine moisture, allowing us to wait out the heat. Thus, fruit flavor and balance was maintained, producing wines of incredible power and ripeness! The grapes were hand picked into small baskets. The fruit was first chilled to 35 degrees F before gentle, whole fruit pressing to extract just the “heart of the grape” juice from the berries. After settling the cold juice over a period of several weeks; clear, fresh juice was fermented using one of Argyle’s proprietary yeasts. A judicious amount of barrel and malo-lactic fermentation was employed to help build creamier textures and mouth rewarding complexities. Bottle aged on the yeast for four years, our flagship wine is disgorged on demand to ensure its appealing freshness.
Wine Production Stats
Varietals: 85% Pinot Noir / 15% Chardonnay
Vineyard: Knudsen
AVA: Willamette Valley
Alcohol: 12.0%
Brix: 21-22.5
Residual Sugar: 1.2%
Tiraged: May 2008, Disgorged on Demand
Cases produced: 2465
Release date: May 2008
Winemaker: Rollin Soles
2003 Argyle Brut
2003 Argyle Brut
This is a robust, bold bubbly! The aroma has ripe Santa Rosa plum fruit blended with rich toasted biscuit and cracked yeast maturity. The flavor is very robust of plum and apple fruit settling on a multi-layer slab of slate-like minerality. The finish is rich, creamy and yeasty with ripe Pinot Noir fruit character driving the impression of this wine on down the long, highway of one’s gullet.
Winemaker's Production Notes
The 2003 vintage could be described as a bit of Yin and a bit of Yang leading to a lot of Whoopee! The Yin came in the form of a September week of wet weather. Some berry splitting and a couple of potential mold issues would have multiplied our grief if another week of wet weather had ensued. Then Yang kicked in with a vengeance in the form of a very hot, dry east wind during the week of 22nd September. 95F on September 27th is unprecedented in our cool climate region! Our fears of splitting and mold were replaced by raisining and shriveling. The solution was to start up our irrigation system in the best vineyard blocks replacing evaporated berry and vine moisture, allowing us to wait out the heat. Thus, fruit flavor and balance was maintained, producing wines of incredible power and ripeness! The grapes were hand picked into small baskets. The fruit was first chilled to 35 degrees F before gentle, whole fruit pressing to extract just the “heart of the grape” juice from the berries. After settling the cold juice over a period of several weeks; clear, fresh juice was fermented using one of Argyle’s proprietary yeasts. A judicious amount of barrel and malo-lactic fermentation was employed to help build creamier textures and mouth rewarding complexities. Bottle aged on the yeast for four years, our flagship wine is disgorged on demand to ensure its appealing freshness.
Wine Production Stats
Varietals: 85% Pinot Noir / 15% Chardonnay
Vineyard: Knudsen
AVA: Willamette Valley
Alcohol: 12.0%
Brix: 21-22.5
Residual Sugar: 1.2%
Tiraged: May 2008, Disgorged on Demand
Cases produced: 2465
Release date: May 2008
Winemaker: Rollin Soles
2003 Argyle Brut
2003 Argyle Brut