Hiyu Wine Farm

Smockshop Band Spring Ephemeral - 2018 - Nate Ready

United States

READY Nate

100% Pinot Noir from Hiyu Wine Farm wine trading company – Smockshop Band. This side business allows Nate and China to further explore the Columbia Gorge and the huge diversity of landscapes and terroirs packed into this small area. These Pinot Noir vines are planted on loamy clays. The grapes are purchased from organic or biodynamic growers and harvested by Nate and China, with the whole business representing about eight hectares in total. The vinification is natural: fermentation with 50% whole grape bunches, and eight months of maturation in oak barrels that have seen several wines. Neither fined nor filtered, and no added sulphites.

Nate Ready and his wife China Tresemer founded Hiyu Wine Farm in 2010, a 12-hectare "reserve" in Oregon's Hood River Valley, which includes vineyards as well as a vegetable garden, animal pastures and forests. Guided by nature and inspired by the principles of biodynamics and permaculture, they cook with their own produce and seek to reveal the grandeur and diversity of their terroir through their wines. Nate is a Master Sommelier, China is a chef and artist, and together they have created a veritable miniature ecological paradise that is being lauded as a model of its kind. Even the wine labels are designed by China! An estate where ancient savoir-faire is being used to create something wonderfully new, and our relationship with the earth, food and wine is being completely reimagined… to be discovered ASAP!