2023 Day Wines Vin de Days l'Orange

Region: Willamette Valley < Oregon

Grapes: 33% Riesling, 26% Muller Thurgau, 24% Gewürztraminer, 17% Pinot Gris

Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming; 3 weeks on the skins, full malolactic fermentation, punched down twice/day & pumpovers on Reisling, racked and pressed in neutral oak barrels; unfiltered; minimal sulfur added at bottling; 12% ABV

• Woman winemaker - Brianne Day!
• Fresh and dry with cheery citrus notes 
• Punchy, zippy aromatics orange marmalade/apricot jam fizz
• Delicious now but the rare orange wine that's worthy of aging a few years

More about Brianne Day & Day Wines:

In case you missed that wine or her story, here’s a refresher: in 2006, recently divorced and alone in the world, having been cut off from her family after abandoning the Jehovah’s Witness religion with which she was raised, the spunky blonde with a trademark pixie cut sold everything she owned and began traveling through wine regions all over the world. Over 8 years she visited 80 different regions, working at wineries in Burgundy, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand, before re-establishing her home base in Oregon and picking up a “winemaking habit”, as she describes it. To support this habit, she waited tables at Little Bird in Portland, where she met a wealthy couple who eventually ended up funding her fledgling wine business. Now she’s making 2500 cases of wine per year, working only with small family growers working organically or biodynamically. She’s also paying her good luck forward – her 14,000-square-foot winery in the Dundee Hills was designed to be sort of a commune, where small-scale producers working naturally can rent facilities for their own wine labels.