**EXTENDED Through 02/01** Aerea Vintners BD12 Offers (Willamette Valley Gamay/Pinot/Passetoutgrain)

Thanks everyone for the overwhelmingly generous support on BDXII. For those that weren’t able to participate we have extended the offer through 02/01. To ensure that the WB community gets the maximum out of our wines, we invite you to join Ian for an exclusive WB zoom live tasting (date/time/signup coming soon). All wines on offer for BDXII will be open from the day and we will taste through as a group.

We look forward to many more years of serving the WB community.

Cheers,

  • IB & JJ

Welcome friends to the Aerea Vintners Berserker Day 12 thread! We are excited to join in on this year’s fun and share our Gamay, Pinot Noir, and Passetoutgrain-style wines with you. Please feel free to put any questions you have into this thread, and thank you for your interest and support.

Aerea, Latin for aerial or ethereal, was founded in the spring of 2016 by Ian Burrows after years of tasting fine wine, presenting exciting pairings tableside, and assisting in friends’ cellars in Adelaide and Burgundy. Ian is a native of Orpington, England and currently based in McMinnville, Oregon. He has been consumed by hospitality, food, and wine his entire adult life. Before moving to Oregon in 2014, Ian worked as a wine director, sommelier, chef, and restaurant owner, in settings as far afield as Paris, London, San Francisco, and Adelaide.

Aerea’s focus has always been on bottling fresh and vibrant Gamay with a decidedly mineral-earthy character, a wine style Ian developed an appreciation for during regular visits to the Fleurie & Morgon regions in Beaujolais, to taste and assist with blending alongside friend and mentor Tim Johnston (Juveniles, Paris).

Each year since 2016, Ian gathers a small crew in late summer to create tiny lots of dry, finely textured, highly individual wines in his unpretentious cellar void of most modern equipment. Open-top fermenters, 300lb capacity pneumatic upright press, and a 12 ft. stainless steel sorting table is all that one will find nestled between a variety of used French oak barrels. The humble facility is perched on a secluded hillside above the town of Newberg, where passion, precision and creativity can shine. Ian’s vision was to develop the cellar as a research-based project to enhance his understanding of farming and winery operations.

Vineyard partners are selected for their farming reputations, minimal environmental impact, and assurance of varietal character and harmony. Aerea’s wines are naturally fermented, matured in seasoned French barrels of various capacity; hand-bottled and stoppered with Diam Origine 10 closures, and without filtration or fining. Moderate levels of sulfites are added to preserve freshness and ensure stability for extended cellar aging. Each component of production at Aerea is considered a step toward a greater understanding of fine wine from the Willamette Valley.

To order, either post in this thread, personal message, or email us at wine@aereavintners.com (with title BD12 ORDER and include cellphone # to process payment via square). Orders will be processed in the order that they are received and if over allocation occurs, you will be offered the opportunity for future new release wines at the same discount, so be sure to sign up for our single annual newsletter that is sent at Thanksgiving.

2018 Pure Gamay Six Pack
Six Bottles of 2018 Pure Gamay
Regularly $198, BD12 $155 Shipped
94 Points- Purely Domestic Wine Report Volume 8.3
20 Six Packs Available

Pure Gamay Mix Six Pack
Three Bottles of 2018 Pure Gamay, Three Bottles of 2019 Pure Gamay
Regularly $198, BD12 $155 Shipped
30 Six Packs Available

Mixed Six Pack
Two Bottles of 2019 Pure Gamay, Two Bottles of 2019 Crucible, Two Bottles of 2019 Arfacio
Regularly $176, BD12 $140 Shipped
60 Six Packs Available

About Our Wines:

2018 Pure Gamay
We are excited to offer you our 2018 rendition of “Pure” Gamay, which is somewhere in style between the substantial, broad 2016 wine and the more elegant 2017. The 2018 harvest was warm and sunny so the resulting Gamay brims with generous, crackling red cranberry fruit, and a subtle savory quality that will serve it well at your table. We hope you enjoy sharing this wine with friends as much as we do.

94 Points- Purely Domestic Wine Report Volume 8.3
120 Cases Produced, LIVE certified sustainable


2019 Pure Gamay:
This wine is alluring, with gorgeous, powdery tannin, orange pekoe tea, with a profile of violets and earth. Best paired with tarragon roasted chicken or Duck a l’orange. The wine that started it all! This is the fourth vintage of our signature Cru-Beaujolais style Gamay, the cornerstone of Aerea Vintners. Glacial flour (loess) soils of the northern slopes of the Chehalem Mountains consistently impart bright high-toned aromatics in the glass. Multiple picks are performed in the vineyard to secure optimum ripeness, followed by partial whole-cluster fermentation, and 12-months élevage in both new and neutral French oak puncheons.

125 cases produced, LIVE certified sustainable


2019 Crucible:
This classic Burgundian field blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay features youthful vibrancy, red plum, dried herb, and citrus rind. We love it’s incredible versatility that pairs perfectly with just about any savory or spicy dish. The Crucible introduces the Burgundian tradition of passetoutgrain fermentation at Aerea Vintners – a single-pass from two adjacent blocks of Chehalem Mountains AVA fruit, Pinot Noir and Gamay Noir, with partial whole cluster fermentation in open-top oak vessels. Six-months in barrel, followed by three months in bottle at the winery.

50 cases produced, LIVE certified sustainable


2019 Arfacio:
This wine is bursting with dehydrated red fruit character such as rhubarb, wild strawberry, rose-hip, and sour cherry. Best paired with a toasted Tallegio cheese sandwich. A brand new wine for 2019 crafted in the classic Venetian-style called appassimento. 90% whole-cluster Pinot Noir grapes are blended with 10% Gamay Noir. Perfectly ripe wholecluster grapes are naturally air-dried in the cellar for 30 days, intensifying flavor, acid, and sugars. This fresh, brambly, red-fruited wine hails from a single vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains. It’s the result of 11-months élevage in 100% neutral French oak puncheons, neither filtered nor fined.

30 cases produced, LIVE certified sustainable.

More details about us can be found at:

Instagram: @Aerea_Vintners

We’d love to share a more thorough look into our history via a video interview produced by our friends at Linfield University’s Oregon Wine Archive:

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I’d like to purchase one of the 2018 Pure Gamay Six Pack. Thank you.

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Morning Joe! Thanks for your order, can you message us your email so that we can get an invoice generated?
We appreciate you very much and will have the pack of 18’ Pure Gamay shipped out to you on Monday upon payment of the invoice :slight_smile:.

Cheers,

  • JJ on behalf of IB

I’d like to purchase the Pure Gamay Mix Six Pack. Thank you!

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Would like a Pure Gamay Mixed Six.
Do not see a link. How can we order?

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In for the Mixed 6-pack. Will send an email too.

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In for a Pure Gamay Mix Six Pack!

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Thanks, looking forward to this.

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Thanks for your order Nate! We have your bottles secured, pleaset email wine@aereavintners.com or direct message with your email address so we can get an electronic invoice generated for you! We will be packing orders this weekend and shipping out first thing Monday!

Cheers,

  • JJ on behalf of IB

Thanks everyone for their orders, we have your bottles secured, for those that have not emailed wine@aereavintners.com please do so or message with your email address so we can get an electronic invoice generated for you! We will be packing orders this weekend and shipping out first thing Monday!

Cheers,

  • JJ on behalf of IB

In for a mixed 6 pack. Sent e-mail with cell phone number

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Looking forward to a new domestic gamay specialist.

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Also looking forward to a domestic Gamay producer. Just started to enjoy the grape from imported labels but excited to try out someone stateside. First time BD shopper too - its been a fun day!

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In for a Mixed 6 pack - email sent.

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E-mail sent for a mixed 6 pack.

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Email order in for a mixed 6. Super excited about trying the blends!

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Yeah, I’m in for a Mixed 6er as well. Want to take the tour of bottles. These sounds super interesting and quite different.

Email sent, looking forward to them.

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What an amazing response to this, our first Wine Berserker Day. We appreciate the immediate and generous support and look forward to continuing to fulfill orders for these special 6-packs.

Keeping our chins-up and our glasses full of delicious wine!

Best,

IB

really interesting - in for a mixed 6 pack!

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First order of the day!
Emailed order for the 2018 Pure Gamay 6-pack! Excited to try your wines!

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