2020 Fossil & Fawn Pinot Gris Rouge Willamette Valley, USA Masseria del Pino with lovely tannic structure and

with lovely tannic structure and notes ranging from ripe black fruit to tobacco and wet earth

Pinot Gris 37%

100% Aglianico from Montemarano (Historically known as the best site in the Taurasi appellation and made famous by Mastroberardino in the 1960s

just say it sotto voce a few times while taking in the menagerie of scribbles constituting this so-called wine label

Planted in 1987 and 1990

2020 Fossil & Fawn Pinot Gris Rouge Willamette Valley, USA Masseria del Pino with lovely tannic structure andAbout 40% of the grapes for this wine come from Silvershot Vineyards, which is kind of our "estate," if you will. The one acre of Pinot Gris is planted in the Pole Block, on the steepest and highest slope of the site. The combined effects of the southwestern slope and the fractured sandstone soil on the own rooted and dry farmed vines results in tiny clusters of deeply pigmented Pinot gris that are nearly indistinguishable from the neighboring Pinot