2023 Gemini Vineyard WV Pinot

Warm desert highway, cool wind in my hair …

A Story: Making this wine always is a bit of a ruckus. It’s beautifully within, not the lanes, but the white lines, doing 130 mph!      .

The Cliff Notes: The wine is a deep transparent red. It wafts an effusive, exotic-spice nose then goes on to give up cherry and Norwegian snuff (tobacco), a nice hit to both your high and low olfactory registers. On your tongue it’s straight-down-the-line perfectly ripe cherry of crazy length before Good-N-Plenty and cherry-ish almond extract kick in. The hints are Amaretto or possibly tropical punch as tannins provide a long slow fade from your palate into the evening.

The Building of: The three best barrels are here: wild-yeast fermented in stainless steel, 100% barrel aged for 19 months in French oak (one once-filled, two neutral), selected and assembled as the best of the best. Bottled unfiltered in April 2025.

Ageability: We absolutely recommend that you consider decanting to get it some air within its first three years. This wine should easily climb in complexity beyond ten years.

Vineyards:The Laurelwood soil of Gemini Vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains AVA is a rich, wind-blown loess that contributes vigor to the plants and good acid to the wines made from these grapes, which are grafted, 32-year-old, Scott Henry–trained, Pommard clone Pinot noir.

— Jim Prosser, owner/winemaker