2024 Gemini Vineyard WV Pinot
Smell fennel, then taste. Red, is red, is red,
A Story: Gemini is usually a bucking bronco in fermenter, and apparently, we are horse-whisperers. .
The Cliff Notes: The color is red cherry. Its aroma leads with red fruit and fennel, followed by strawberry cherry, double-bubble, plum and resinous herbs/garrigue (rosemary, thyme). The palate is higher tone red fruits, cocoa and floral notes. The wine has amazing “elan,” it’s highly drinkable, it moves out. It finishes on sanded-lip, satiny tannins and screams for cedar plank salmon.
The Building of: The three best barrels are here: wild-yeast fermented in stainless steel, 100% barrel aged for 18 months in French oak (one twice-filled, two neutral), selected and assembled as the best of the best. Bottled unfiltered in April 2026.
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, 33-year-old, Scott Henry–trained, Pommard clone Pinot noir.
— Jim Prosser, owner/winemaker
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