Hiyu "Tzum Sean Nos" Columbia Valley Red 2022

The parcel is one acre planted in volcanic sand between Solais and Arion in the center of our site on the banks of the Columba. The varieties are from the Canary Islands: Pink Negramoll, Listan Negro, Malvasia Fina, Mission, Palomino and Babosa Negro. It is equal parts red, white and pink grapes. By mixing grapes of many colors it allows us to arrive at a translucent strawberry pink by a winemaking pathway that would be impossible with a grape of a single color. In one sense this is an expansion of the wines color and textural palette, but more powerfully it allows us to experience the wine as different colors in different moments. It is a step further than 'orange wine' in this sense. In one moment it can feel like an exotic and intoxicatingly floral white and just seconds later it will have transitioned into a more bloody and sanguine mode, this feeling might last for an instant before the sensation shifts again as if each grape was taking a turn revealing a different aspect of the site.