Flavorscape Gamay Noir

The Lazy Gamay returns! This wine has been an exploration of the possible. How little can we contribute ourselves to a red wine? How can we let the fruit do the work of winemaking for us? These are the boundaries we’ve been testing in the creation of this wine. What started in 2018 as a trial in minimalism with Pinot noir brough us to the place of “Let’s do this again, but with Gamay.” We destem the fruit to allow purity, put it in a small tank with a pressure release lid on it, and then we did nothing for 19 days. We then pressed the fruit and racked to 10-year-old or older 228L French oak barrels and bottle after 10 months.