Iruai Wines- Shasta Cascade Red 2022

Iruai Winery (“ear-oo-eye" … the artist formerly known as Methode Sauvage) was started in 2013 by Chad and Michelle Westbrook Hinds in Berkeley, CA as a gypsy natural wine project, before laying down roots in the mythical Shasta-Cascade mountains of Siskiyou County.

Trading in the urban winery hustle for the vigneron life, we are exploring avant garde vineyard planting and rehabilitation techniques using the permaculture methods laid out by Masanobu Fukuoka, while formulating our own “chaos organics” method of re-enchanting the land. Truly unlike anywhere else in California, Western Siskiyou County feels like a cross between Switzerland and Montana, cut with a rain shadow from Mount Shasta that divides it starkly between high mountain prairie and dense alpine forests.

Marionberry . Mezcal . Luxardo Cherry . Smudge Stick . Violets

FOOD grilled duck breast / morels and creamy polenta

Type: Red
Producer: Iruai 
Varietal: 40% Trousseau / 25% Pinot Noir / 20% Gamay / 10% Mondeuse / 5% Blaufränkisch
Country: United States
Region: California
Farming: Organic