The Marigny, Red Blend "Drink This Wine" An Everyday Anyway Cuvée, Oregon 2022

51% Pinot noir (organic without certification), 36% Merlot rosé (sustainably-farmed), 9%, Skin-fermented Sauvignon blanc (organic without certification), 4% Chardonnay (organic without certification)

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.

"Drink This Wine" An Everyday, Anyway Cuvée is a collab created with Andy's friend, the chef Molly Baz.

This is wine for eating. It’s wine for chilling. It’s casual and unfussy and perfect any time of day. Absolutely no judgment here if breakfast wine is your thing.

Molly calls this “a joosy-juice as hell, jolly rancher as f—, taste the rainbow kind of joint with deep red berry flavor, in a playful light-touch kind of way. This is exactly the type of thing you want to be sippin’ on a hot summer’s eve, with a platter of cold cuts or a fresh-off-the-grill burga’.”

Pinot noir is fermented via carbonic maceration in stainless steel. Merlot rosé is fermented whole cluster direct to press in French-made concrete cube. Sauvignon Blanc is fermented via semi-carbonic maceration in stainless steel. Chardonnay is fermented via whole cluster direct to press in neutral French oak 228LT barrels. Pinot noir, Merlot rosé and Sauvignon Blanc are all aged in the same vessel in which they were fermented.