Art + Science Trousseau Morning Mist Vineyard 2023 Morey Best with roast chicken

Best with roast chicken

set back from the Gironde estuary on the higher ground of the peninsula

Marc Colin's holdings sit on these classic clay-limestone slopes

an engineer turned farmer

where shallow

Art + Science Trousseau Morning Mist Vineyard 2023 Morey Best with roast chickenThe Land Trousseau is a grape most people associate with the Jura in eastern France, not the Willamette Valley, but Morning Mist Vineyard has been growing it in the coastal foothills near Sheridan, Oregon, inside the McMinnville AVA. At 600 700 feet elevation, it sits among the most westerly vineyard sites in Yamhill County, close enough to the Coast Range to catch cooling afternoon winds that slow ripening through the season. Soils here run to basalt