Coriolis, Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, Oregon, 2019 (Antica Terra by Maggie Harrison)

Overview of the Wine
There are, every year, a selection of barrels that somehow don’t find harmony with the final compositions for Antica Terra or Lillian. A world away from sub-standard barrels that would be declassified, to be sold off in bulk or dumped down the drain, these barrels are often some of the most precious in the cellar. By segregating these barrels, it is ensured that the wine that gets bottled under the Antica Terra and Lillian names are, year after year, the very highest expression possible in any given vintage. 

Those unused barrels, full of shimmering potential, sit for a final blending session. The resultant wine lives under the name Coriolis. 

The mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels. The symbol of the water wheel serves as symbol for the conversion of free-flowing energy into useful forms of power.  One hundred percent of the profits from the sale of this wine are donated to charity. In this way, this wine supports the conversion of ideas into powerful actions that serve a greater good.

Organic.

Grape / Blend
Pinot Noir

Origin
Willamette Valley, Oregon

Winemaker's Tasting Notes
100% Pinot Noir with flavors of dried strawberry, red plum, rose petal, violet, and lavender. Great silky texture with ever lasting finish. Great to pair with red meat dishes, such as fillet mignon and/or duck with cranberry sauce. After a decade at Sine Qua Non, winemaker Maggie Harrison began making her own wines. She owns an 11 acre vineyard located on a rocky hillside in the Eola-Amity Hills where the vines struggle to grow in a pre-historic seabed without topsoil, amongst a fractured mixture of sandstone sown with fossilized oyster shells.

Product size: 750ml