Iruai Arcana Savagnin 2018
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| Management number | 253563597 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$13.20 | Model Number | 253563597 | ||
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The Arcana is 100% Savagnin sourced from Alpen Cellars' organic vineyard in the Trinity Lakes AVA, Trinity County, Northern California. Trinity Lakes sits at elevations between 1,500 and 4,000 feet in a mountainous pocket of the Klamath Mountains, where rocky, thin, gravelly loam soils and a large reservoir create a lake-moderated continental climate with a short 175-to-200-day growing season. Chad Hinds discovered Savagnin growing here under the name traminer — a non-aromatic forebear of Gewürztraminer that is genetically identical to the Jura's signature white grape.
The 2018 vintage was the inaugural release of Arcana and the first wine released under the Iruai label. Hinds transported the fruit to the Bay Area, where he fermented it naturally using native yeasts with no additions. The wine was bottled unfiltered and unfined with no added sulfur. Iruai describes it as "rocky and electric, with a tropical punch and a heady herbal tea perfume." Hinds also noted white flower character alongside savory umami notes, comparing it to "a Margarita doused with snow from the top of Mont Blanc."
Savagnin is a late-ripening, thick-skinned white grape best known as the sole variety permitted in Jura's vin jaune. It produces wines with characteristically high acidity, flinty minerality, and a broad aromatic spectrum that can include citrus, stone fruit, exotic fruit, and herbal notes. In the cool, high-elevation Trinity Lakes site, the grape held acidity well while picking up a distinctly Californian ripeness alongside its alpine character.
Iruai (pronounced "ear-oo-eye") takes its name from the earliest recorded name for California's Scott Valley. The project began as Methode Sauvage in 2013 and has since relocated from Berkeley to the town of Etna in Siskiyou County, where Chad and Michelle Westbrook Hinds have planted their own vineyard and established a permanent winery.
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