2018 Malbec
Oregon Malbec
2018 was our second vintage of wines and our first year making Malbec. The fruit was hand-harvested, cluster-sorted, destemmed, and berry sorted before fermentation. It was inoculated and fermented nearly dry before being gently pressed, settled, and racked to barrel.
The wine matured 20 months in barrel, where oak components began to integrate into the wine and micro-oxygenation stabilized tannin and color complexes.
We filtered and bottled the wine in July 2020, and decided to bottle age the wine for another year. The wait is over and this wine is now perfect for drinking! And while this wine didn't wine the Oregon Wine Experience 2023 Best Malbec - it's only because it was too shy to enter the contest.
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