THIS WINE IS LA MERDE.

The first wines were part of an exploration into mixed media, fermentation, and design.

The idea behind the name was the results would be the shit or “the shit.”

(Besides everything sounds fancier in French.)

And now a decade later.

The first official release to the public.

FAIL MORE

BETTER

I make some gallery tier wine that I put an incredibly large amount of effort into.

Everything about it is a little secus. Each volume is built from the years of experimenting for La Merde.

So when three different Riesling ferments didn’t do what they were told.

I was left with one extremely intriguing barrel ferment of Riesling that didn’t fit in the exhibit.

But it’s La Merde!

Organic riesling from the Willamette Valley that spent 24 months in barrel trying to finish a native ferment.

It has that spatlese/brut sugar to acid thing with this chablizy reduction. I mean it’s pretty cool, but it was supposed to be something else…

There’s hardly any of it and I think it will be a surprise in ten years. At the very least it lasts in the fridge after opening longer than expected… if you don’t drink it all.

20 cases made.

AMIS POUR LA MERDE / NV

is a collaboration wine and translates to “Friends for The Shit,” but also reads like “Friends pour La Merde”

The first bottling of Amis Pour La Merde is also the first and last bottling of wine made by a close friend.

The story goes that the red wine is one barrel of carbonic red wine that has never seen a gram of sulfur.

The white wine is said to be one barrel of late harvested white wine that was acidified by an early picked verjus of the same vineyard… and only bottled in magnums.

After that, to make a long story short, the deer kept eating all the grapes.

So he decided to walk away from wine.

These wines were acquired to finish what was started. The labels are designed after hours of conversations together over the years and the original winemaker even wrote a poem for the back label.

Let these bottles serve as a prologue and epilogue for another wine star lost to the dust.

(They didn’t die, they just moved to Arizona.)

25 cases made of each.

LA MERDE

is just good hand made wine that isn’t trying to be in a box…

The grapes grew in the ground with the help from some beautiful humans. If a substance was added that wasn’t a grape it was just a little sulfur. Feel free to dm if you wanna fight about sulfur.
The yeast was spontaneous, the techniques are ancient, and the practice is in patience.
The grapes were chosen, the fermentations and movements are calculated. The temperature and threshold for quality are set. The barrels were selected.

LA MERDE

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There’s a lot of shit out there, but this is the only La Merde.

(Out here doing things a little secus.)

LA MERDE

WILLAMETTE VALLEY AVA