Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024 LD25SALE A former Chef du Cave

A former Chef du Cave at Krut

sitting on clay-gravel terroir just over the river from Château d'Yquem

and raised mostly in tank with a bit of old barrel

Tannins are smooth and silky

The extracts and sugar were added before bottling

Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024 LD25SALE A former Chef du CaveSix acres on a knoll nobody's heard of, tucked behind a peak that blocks the cold Pacific wind the rest of Oregon takes on the chin. That's Dux a small, low lying Dundee Hills site at around 450 feet, planted in 2011 in classic red Jory soil, sheltered from the Van Duzer Corridor gusts by the hill just to its south. Less wind stress means gentler, more even ripening, and the Pinot that comes off it is perfumed and poised rather than muscular. Jackson