St Reginald Parish, Aligoté "The Marigny" Direct Press Sur Lie, Willamette, Oregon 2023

100% Aligoté, organically farmed.

This wine is bright, herbal and crowd-pleasing. The grapes are direct to press with juice going to a mix of newer and older, neutral French oak barrels for fermentation and élevage. Racked from barrel to stainless one month before bottling.

Although the grape’s parentage is Pinot noir and Gouais blanc, it is more akin to leaner, more herbal styles Chardonnay, or even some rounder styles of Chenin blanc.

Andrew Reginald Young left behind a career as a New Orleans rock drummer in 2012 to make low-intervention wines from cooler climate vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley. He works with a lot of carbonic maceration to keep the wines light, all fermented with native yeasts and minimal intervention in the winery. The name of the winery is an amalgamation on his middle name, Reginald, and his neighborhood growing up in New Orleans, St Tammany Parish.