Illahe Vineyards Willamette Valley Viognier 2025 Gattinara at roughly 4

at roughly 4

pink-grey skinned

close enough to the Volnay border that the soils reflect both villages: clay-limestone and ocean marl

sweet tangerine

Illahe Vineyards Willamette Valley Viognier 2025 Gattinara at roughly 4The Land Viognier is a northern Rhne grape that needs heat to develop its aromatics and cool nights to keep from turning oily and flat, and almost nowhere manages both. The Willamette Valley is an unlikely place to look, but Illahe's corner of it works for a specific reason: the estate sits in the Coast Range foothills near Dallas, in Polk County about 15 miles west of Salem, directly in the path of the Van Duzer Corridor. That gap in the mountains