Love and Squalor Willamette Valley Gamay Noir 2022 NO20230719 With six years on it

With six years on it now

this wine is finely proportioned and beautifully pure

named for the Japanese phonetic spelling of vermouth

and cinnamon galore

Named for a Greek river god

Love and Squalor Willamette Valley Gamay Noir 2022 NO20230719 With six years on itEveryone in Oregon makes Pinot Noir. Matt Berson makes Gamay, and he makes it like someone with nothing to prove. Berson got pulled out of the restaurant grind in 2003 by what he calls a band of marauding Oregon winemakers, then went and worked harvests in New Zealand, Napa, Germany and Argentina before setting up his winery in an unglamorous corner of Portland. His approach is stubbornly hands off: organic fruit from growers he's known for a decade,