Drink This Wine "Sippable Salt Lovers White" Willamette Valley, Oregon 2023

FROM JENNY & FRANCOIS:

THE WINE: 50% Riesling, 50% Chardonnay. This white is seductive and saline, and a quiet, sneaky slayer. Salt lovers take note, the acidity and brightness of this wine will dance around any well seasoned palate. Subtle notes of honeysuckle, briny olives and jasmine rice make this the perfect accompaniment to everything from a platter of fresh shucked oysters on the half to your mama’s over-cooked roast chicken.

THE PRODUCER: 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.