Winemaker Notes
Clos Electrique Rougue is especially pretty this year, with levity in the palate and purity in its expression of dark red fruits. It has striking acidity in comparison to the earthiness and funk that usually typifies this wine. The texture is amazing, like a piece of silk laid across your palate.

We attribute the complexity of this wine to the very old red Burgundy clones we planted here nearly 40 years ago, Clos Electrique terroir and the reverence we pay to traditional Burgundian cellar techniques.
 
Vineyard Notes
Clos Electrique is farmed organically which means that we use elemental sulfur during the growing season to prevent growth of powdery mildew and use copper hydroxide and leaf removal in the vicinity of grape clusters to inhibit botrytis. Insect pests are generally kept in check by cultivation of predatory insects with integrated cover crops. This is one of the warmer vineyard sites in the Red Hills of Dundee and usually is harvested during the second half of September. Yields of the “rouge” average 1.5 tons per acre (20.5 hl/hectare) while the “blanc” generally yields 2.0 tons per acre (27 hl/hectare).  Our vineyard was the very first certified Salmon-Safe vineyard in Oregon, which reflects our long term commitment to riparian protection, water management and conservation of native biodiversity.