Iruai, Shasta Cascade White (2024)
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Mt. Shasta, California / Oregon— Blend of organically-grown white grapes from multiples sites in California’s Shasta-Cascade regions of the Trinity Alps and Oregon’s Siskiyou Wilderness inspired by the wines of the French alps! 30% Savagnin, 20% Chardonnay, 20% Chenin Blanc, 20% Savagnin Rose Musqué & 10% Grüner Veltliner. Dry, medium-bodied with textural mouthfeel and fresh acidity. Fresh and floral nose with yellow apple, almond, pomelo, dried flowers and alpine spring water on the palate. Low S02.
Iruai Winery (“ear-oo-eye" … the artist formerly known as Methode Sauvage) was started in 2013 by Chad and Michelle Westbrook Hinds in Berkeley, CA as a gypsy natural wine project, before laying down roots in the mythical Shasta-Cascade mountains of Siskiyou County.
“Trading in the urban winery hustle for the vigneron life, we are exploring avant garde vineyard planting and rehabilitation techniques using the permaculture methods laid out by Masanobu Fukuoka, while formulating our own “chaos organics” method of re-enchanting the land. Truly unlike anywhere else in California, Western Siskiyou County feels like a cross between Switzerland and Montana, cut with a rain shadow from Mount Shasta that divides it starkly between high mountain prairie and dense alpine forests.
Finding ourselves in largely untested grape growing territory, with high elevations and a continental climate, we have turned Iruai into exploration and celebration of esoteric varieties that flourish in the Alps of Europe. While we work to grow our Western Siskiyou County estate projects, we purchase fruit and lease vineyards throughout the Shasta-Cascade, from the Trinity Alps of California to the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon.”