Roco 'Gravel Road' Oregon Pinot Noir

The hills in the Willamette Valley are punctuated by gravel roads, which lead to the regions finest vineyards. ROCO's Gravel Road Pinot Noir is a blend of several of the distinctive vineyards including the Soles' own Wits' End Vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains AVA. An outstanding value, the Gravel Road Pinot Noir flavor profile surpasses many other wineries flagship Pinot Noirs. The old-world style offers bold flavor with balance and grace to pair well with nearly any food.

After harvest, the berries are chilled overnight before being gently destalked and the whole berries fall into small 1.6-ton open fermenters where they soak for ten days before fermentation beginning. Soaking allows gentle extraction of color and flavor from the berry skin, and not the bitter-tasting seeds. At that time the ferment is gently pressed in our modern tank press. The young wine is then sent to barrel for malolactic fermentation to soften the acidity and to add further complexity, then racked once to new, one, two and three-year-old, tight-grained, French oak barrels. The wines are aged in barrel for 9 or more months before bottling.