Winemaker Notes
Cardwell Hill Cellars is a family-owned Oregon boutique winery producing about 8000 cases per year. Sustainable agriculture practices are used to achieve premium quality fruit that is hand harvested. These practices are certified sustainable by Salmon Safe and LIVE (Low Impact Viticulture and Enology). The fruit was processed in our gravity flow winery within two hours of harvesting. Following destemming, which yields about 80% full berries, the juice was cold soaked for 40 hours and then inoculated. Fermentation was achieved at temperatures not exceeding 85F. The straight run and press wines were gravity fed into the barrel room located below the fermentation deck/crush pad. The wines were racked from the lees for 7 months. Later the wine was racked into the blend tank, settled and then gravity-fed into the filler corker. Clones from Pommard.