Hiyu Corvus
Hiyu Wine Farm

Hiyu Corvus

red still Columbia Gorge Hiyu Wine Farm Estate

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Winemaker Notes

“The darkest and most powerful wine we produce on the farm.”

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A field blend of mostly Cabernet Franc with Mencía, Brancellao, Manseng Noir and Abouriou, from a one-acre parcel on a rolling plateau in the northeast “Field of Stars” corner of the farm. The scallop-shell label and the pairing of Cabernet Franc (from the Abbey of Roncesvalles at the Camino's start) with Galician Mencía evoke the Camino de Santiago.

Vintages

50 days on skins, four years in barrel, hand-bottled. Nate: “as if the aromatic framework of a 1970s Napa mountain Cabernet were laid over a Cornas or Côte Rôtie — at first dense, cool-climate Syrah (though there is none), then …

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