Evening Land Seven Springs Gamay Noir Eola-Amity Hills 2021

At Evening Land Vineyards, we believe that land stewardship, vineyard sensitivity, and conscientious farming are key to producing high-quality, age-worthy wines that depict a true sense of place.\n\nHealthy vineyards create thriving ecosystems. In short, when vines are thoughtfully integrated with their surroundings, the organisms that live among them - plants, animals, and human beings - flourish too. Ultimately, we wish to explore the character of our vineyard with holistic integrity.\n\nAfter countless years of farming the same site, we’ve found that being in tune with its unique idiosyncrasies is the best way to create terroir-specific wines. In addition to farming organically and implementing biodynamic principles, having discernment for the vineyard's many nuances is key.\n\nTo us, vineyard sensitivity incorporates understanding a site’s unique aspect, altitude, daily sunlight, average annual rainfall, soil pH, row direction, and beyond. At Seven Springs, we’ve learned that our soils have a very high moisture content, despite thriving in a rather hot and sunny climate, due to its composition. Because of the soils’ high clay content, water from spring rainfalls is retained, eschewing the need for any form of irrigation during the warm summer season.\n\nThese complexities – and what they lend to the wines they grow – inform our viticultural decisions at Evening Land Vineyards. We believe a deeper comprehension of this site brings us closest to vivid and transparent wines of place, which is of course, what we are after.