Love and Squalor Willamette Valley Gamay Noir 2022 NO20230719 This limited expression of 100

This limited expression of 100 barrels

named for the Japanese phonetic spelling of vermouth

and this bone-dry Riesling comes from roughly 60-year-old own-rooted vines in the limestone and granite sand of Cienega Valley

Blue Gin is spicy

Love and Squalor Willamette Valley Gamay Noir 2022 NO20230719 This limited expression of 100Everyone in Oregon makes Pinot Noir. Matt Berson makes Gamay, and he makes it like someone with nothing to prove. Berson got pulled out of the restaurant grind in 2003 by what he calls a band of marauding Oregon winemakers, then went and worked harvests in New Zealand, Napa, Germany and Argentina before setting up his winery in an unglamorous corner of Portland. His approach is stubbornly hands off: organic fruit from growers he's known for a decade,