Méthode Sauvage

Grand Vent Vineyard - 2017 - Chad Hinds

United States

HINDS Chad

100% Pinot Noir from vines grown using permaculture, and according to the principles of Masanobu Fukuoka (author of The One-Straw Revolution), and planted at the Grand Vent Vineyard, in the Petaluma Gap appellation. It’s a vineyard site that lives up to its name, being constantly swept by Pacific Ocean winds, and frequently shrouded in mist. It’s a terroir that until recently was considered too hostile for winegrowing, and good only for cattle grazing. And yet these young Pinot Noir vines have grown wonderfully here! The vinification is natural and without additives, including one week of carbonic maceration with whole grape bunches, and maturation in barrels that have seen several wines. Bottled without fining or filtration.
Chad Hinds, a thirty-something California-born winemaker, is an exemplar of this new generation that is re-writing the codes of American wine today. After graduating from culinary school, he initially hoped to make a living as a chef for wealthy private clients and restaurants. Unfortunately, the 2007 financial crisis had just struck, and the timing couldn’t have been worse to launch a career. So Chad decided to take an introductory class in winemaking, and to his surprise, the young man discovered that his true passion wasn’t cooking after all! He dived into the wine world, landing his first job with a big "technological" winery. But having started off at one extreme of the winemaking spectrum, his curiosity soon led him to explore the more natural approaches at the other end. After attending a lecture by Hardy Wallace from the pioneering Dirty and Rowdy winery, he would be taken under the winemaker’s wing, thereafter spending his weekends helping out at the winery until he finally received his degree in oenology. Ready at last to launch his own project, in 2013 he released his first wines under the Méthode Sauvage label, a brand based on the purchase of quality grapes from vines farmed biodynamically or by permaculture. Today, the bottles produced for Méthode Sauvage are very rare as Chad and his wife Michelle Westbrook Hinds have now embarked on a new adventure in high altitude winegrowing: Iruai Wines.

75 cl

Degree of alcohol : 12,5 %

To drink from : 2021 to 2025

Country : Etats Unis

€37.80

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