Iruai - Poulsard 2022
Notes from winemaker(s): Although Trousseau is clearly the Jura's most celebrated export, Poulsard is a side quest worth taking. Like Morris Day to Prince, Donovan to Bob Dylan, Silvanus to Dionysus, or nutella to peanut butter: Poulsard is on its own trip. The tang and funk are paramount, carrying wild berries through the mycelial bounty of the forest floor. Bright and lively fruit breaking down any pleasure inhibitors — Kool-Aid Man-like — and starting the juicy revolution. Poulsard is the Jura's hidden track, its easter egg, its secret stash . . . welcome to the speakeasy of transcendent yum.
This is wild berries, orange zest, bouquet garni, red Kool-Aid.
Try it with fresh sourdough and chèvre (goat cheese).
About the winemaker(s): 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 Michelle’s beautiful hometown of Etna, CA in the mythical Shasta-Cascade mountains of Siskiyou County in 2019. They seek to make wine with a sense of place by employing no additives, and removing no character. Our goal in the vineyard is to let the vines thrive like they would in the wild, and in the cellar, to shepherd each ferment through its own natural development and evolution.
Region: California AVA
Grape: 100% Poulsard
Vintage: 2022
750 ml
Notes from winemaker(s): Although Trousseau is clearly the Jura's most celebrated export, Poulsard is a side quest worth taking. Like Morris Day to Prince, Donovan to Bob Dylan, Silvanus to Dionysus, or nutella to peanut butter: Poulsard is on its own trip. The tang and funk are paramount, carrying wild berries through the mycelial bounty of the forest floor. Bright and lively fruit breaking down any pleasure inhibitors — Kool-Aid Man-like — and starting the juicy revolution. Poulsard is the Jura's hidden track, its easter egg, its secret stash . . . welcome to the speakeasy of transcendent yum.
This is wild berries, orange zest, bouquet garni, red Kool-Aid.
Try it with fresh sourdough and chèvre (goat cheese).
About the winemaker(s): 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 Michelle’s beautiful hometown of Etna, CA in the mythical Shasta-Cascade mountains of Siskiyou County in 2019. They seek to make wine with a sense of place by employing no additives, and removing no character. Our goal in the vineyard is to let the vines thrive like they would in the wild, and in the cellar, to shepherd each ferment through its own natural development and evolution.
Region: California AVA
Grape: 100% Poulsard
Vintage: 2022
750 ml
Notes from winemaker(s): Although Trousseau is clearly the Jura's most celebrated export, Poulsard is a side quest worth taking. Like Morris Day to Prince, Donovan to Bob Dylan, Silvanus to Dionysus, or nutella to peanut butter: Poulsard is on its own trip. The tang and funk are paramount, carrying wild berries through the mycelial bounty of the forest floor. Bright and lively fruit breaking down any pleasure inhibitors — Kool-Aid Man-like — and starting the juicy revolution. Poulsard is the Jura's hidden track, its easter egg, its secret stash . . . welcome to the speakeasy of transcendent yum.
This is wild berries, orange zest, bouquet garni, red Kool-Aid.
Try it with fresh sourdough and chèvre (goat cheese).
About the winemaker(s): 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 Michelle’s beautiful hometown of Etna, CA in the mythical Shasta-Cascade mountains of Siskiyou County in 2019. They seek to make wine with a sense of place by employing no additives, and removing no character. Our goal in the vineyard is to let the vines thrive like they would in the wild, and in the cellar, to shepherd each ferment through its own natural development and evolution.
Region: California AVA
Grape: 100% Poulsard
Vintage: 2022
750 ml