Fossil & Fawn Do Nothing 2023

Vintage: 2022
Grapes: 80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay
Style: Red Wine
Alcohol Content: 12% Alcohol by Volume
Vineyards: No Clos Radio
Appellation: Willamette Valley
Viticulture: Organic, Dry-Farmed
Soils: Wind-blown Loess
Elevation: 500 Feet
Yeasts: Indigenous
Harvest: September 13, 2021 – September 23, 2021
Vinification: Fermented wholecluster carbonically for 30 days outside. 
Aging: 5 months in neutral French oak
Production: 877 cases of 750mL Bottles

The name refers to how we make it and what you should do when you drink it. All the grapes that go into it (an ever-changing mix of white and red varieties) are fermented whole-cluster, entirely via carbonic maceration in sealed tanks. We can’t touch it if we wanted to! Then we indeed do a little something. The grapes are pressed and the wine is rested in tank and neutral barrel for a few months. Do Nothing tastes like Hawaiian Punch and river rocks, and is perfect with just about everything or perhaps preferably, nothing at all.

The aroma is explosively fruity and sweet, while the palate is light, bright, and rocky