This wine is allocated. Please email your request to meg@troonvineyard.com

Ingredients: Ingredients: Estate Biodynamic Organic Grapes, minimum effective sulfites

Nutritional Information: per 5-oz. serving: 105 calories, sugar 0 grams, carbohydrates 2 grams, fiber/fat/protein 0

Technical Information: 11.9% alcohol, RS 0 g/L, TSO2 30 mg/L, pH 3.6, TA 5.9 g/L

Unfined and Unfiltered - Vegan Friendly

Packaging: Bottle Weight: 467 grams, no capsule, corks origine by DIAM, tree-free labels

The tale of our tannat is classic good news and bad news story. First the good news. Our 2021 Tannat is an amazing wine with great depth and complexity that will age beautifully for many years. The bad news is that we made very few bottles. Our replanting project for our blocks of tannat have progressed slowly. Frost damage and persistent gophers have slowed down the already slow process of developing new vineyard blocks. The vagaries of nature have prevented us producing another red wine from tannat since we bottled this 2021. We hope to produce a 2025 Troon Vineyard Tannat, but that wine would not be released until 2028. So until then — this is it.

If you have proper wine storage conditions available we recommend several years of bottle age before enjoying. If not, please decant our 2021 Tannat an hour or two before drinking to allow this wine to reveal all it has to offer.

Tannat is a rare grape variety that has found a home at Troon Vineyard. Native to the Madiran region of Southwest France, it has become quite popular in Uruguay. This high acid and tannin variety is quite versatile in the Applegate Valley, and we make both this sparkling wine and a deep and structured red wine from it.

Nate Wall’s Winemaker Notes

The Tannat for this wine, our last pick of the 2021 vintage, was harvested on October 16, 2021. Most of the fruit was loaded into a large, open-top neutral French oak vat, with the remainder into bins, and included an average of about 70% whole clusters. Whole cluster fermentation can enhance the spiciness of tannat, broaden out the mid-palate, and help soften tannat's tendency towards higher acids. We find that the fruit from our older tannat plantings is improved by co-fermenting with malbec, and such was the case with 2021, which includes 9% malbec in the final blend.

Like all Troon Vineyard wines, the ferments started spontaneously from indigenous yeasts with no additives. The wine was handled gently during fermentation with just one punch-down or foot-treading per day, and the wine proceeded to ferment until it finished roughly three to four weeks later. The wine was then pressed off to age in neutral French oak barrels for 22 months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered with a small dose of sulfur added at bottling.