Barrel Tasting at Lady Hill Winery

Elise StimacWine making

Barrel tasting custom crush 2016 Three Feathers Pinot Noir with Winemaker Dan Duryee at Lady Hill Winery, Saint Paul, Oregon, USA.
Barrel tasting custom crush 2016 Three Feathers Pinot Noir with Winemaker Dan Duyree at Ladyhill Winery, Saint Paul, Oregon, USA.

Winemaker Dan Duryee and Victor Stimac sample 2016 Three Feathers Pinot Noir from the custom crush barrels at Lady Hill Winery, Saint Paul, Oregon, USA.

Barrel Tasting with our Winemaker Dan Duryee

Our tasting compared the four barrels against each other. Winemakers do this to ensure that none of the barrels are bad or “off” tasting before they are blended. One of the barrels was noticeably different. The simplest explanation was that the barrel manufacturer was different from the other three. Interesting that that would make a difference. The barrels were filled at different stages of the pressing- the first was free flowing juice, then the consequent barrels were filled as the grapes were pressed with increasing pressure so each barrel would have different characteristics from the amount of solids in the juice.