Grape Ink 'Flower Field' Red Wine Tualatin Hills AVA Willamette Valley

750ml bottle

12% abv

Bay leaf, black tea, and volcanic stone on the nose. Mouthwatering, light on its feet, and gently textural from the Mondeuse. 

Pinot Noir-dominant (88%) field blend with Trousseau (7%) and Mondeuse (5%). Wildflowers were planted in the plot before vine establishment to regenerate the soil, giving the wine its name. Grape Ink's home vineyard on Mason Hill Road, North Plains, Oregon, at high elevation in the Tualatin Hills. Shallow soils 12 to 30 inches deep before hitting a hard layer of volcanic rock and shells, previously farmed as strawberry fields in the 1950s and then as cattle grazing land. All self-supporting vines planted by Jarad Hadi in 2018. Low vigor. Practicing organics and biodynamics. 6 acres total.

Hand-harvested. Each variety layered separately into open-top neutral wood fermenters and co-fermented together using partial whole-cluster maceration. Aged 18 months in a cave in Oregon's coastal mountain range. Unfined, unfiltered. Minimal sulfur at bottling only.

Grape Ink produces a series of distinct cuvées (Flower Power Chardonnay, Flower Field, Days Until Harvest Pinot Noir, En Plein Air, Nebbioso) each built around a specific site or approach. The Flower Field is the estate's field blend, closest to what Hadi would describe as his home vineyard's most direct expression: all three varieties co-fermented as they grew, minimal cellar intervention, and extended cave aging. The Mondeuse and Trousseau components are unusual choices for Oregon and reflect winegrower Jarad Hadi's interest in varieties that perform well under cool, low-vigor conditions rather than defaults to conventional Willamette Valley templates.

Jarad Hadi is the winemaker and farmer behind Grape Ink, a small-production project based on his 26-acre property in North Plains, in the hills west of Portland. Hadi farms 5 acres of estate vines alongside fruit from neighboring vineyards he tends himself. His background spans multiple wine regions internationally and he came to North Plains deliberately, drawn by the elevation, the cold, and the tension it produces in the fruit. Low vigor, shallow volcanic soils, and high-elevation wind exposure define the character of his wines across the range.