Archive of Marginalia Wines
This page has information about all wines released by Marginalia, organized by wine style.
Light Red Wine
Light red wines are made by limiting extraction from grapes or blends of grapes with relatively low color potential. These are light, refreshing, often chillable red wines. Marginalia produces more volume of light red wine than any other category. Read more about this style of wine here.
2020 Light Red Wine
21.6% Pinot Noir cofermented with 79.4% Pinot Gris from Breezy Slope Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 12.9% ABV
Available directly from the winery only
2019 Light Red Wine
51.7% Pinot Noir cofermented with 48.3% Pinot Gris from Breezy Slope Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 12.3% ABV
Available directly from the winery and also in distribution
2018 Light Red Wine
32.6% Pinot Noir cofermented with 67.4% Pinot Gris from Breezy Slope Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 13.3% ABV
Not available
Amber Wine
Amber wines are made by fermenting white grapes on their skins, seeds, and sometimes stems before pressing. Amber or, as it is sometimes called, orange wine, is what we get when we apply classic red wine processes to white grapes, which results in phenolic or tannic wines with interesting, often luminous golden and orange hues. Read more about amber wine here. The 2020 wine is highly extracted and structured, while the 2019 is aromatic and full-bodied if not overtly tannic, drinking much bigger than its 9.6% ABV frame would suggest.
2020 Amber Wine
100% Semillon from Les Collines Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 12.4% ABV
Available directly from the winery and also in distribution
2019 Amber Wine
100% Marsanne from Rockgarden Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 9.6% ABV
Available directly from the winery and also in distribution
Red Wine
Red wines are made by fermenting red grapes with their skins, seeds, and sometimes stems before pressing. The Marginalia red wines trace a clear trajectory of experimentation and discovery. The earliest red wine (2017 Syrah from Eritage Vineyard) was an experiment in whole cluster fermentation which has marked most of the subsequent Marginalia wines to at least some extent. The next red wine was an experiment in high acid red wine making and the use of Oregon White Oak (Quercus Garryana) in aging; these experiments too have informed subsequent red wines, though in somewhat less overt expressions. Finally the 2020 wine marked a new direction toward lower alcohol red winemaking. Subsequent vintages are not likely to be quite as extremely low in alcohol, but the 2020 red proved that we can make a balanced red wine in Walla Walla with much lower alcohol levels than have become conventional over the last couple decades.
2020 Red Wine
52.2% Zinfandel from Les Collines Vineyard cofermented with
47.8% Pinot Noir from Breezy Slope Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 11.5% ABV
Available directly from the winery and also in distribution
2018 Red Wine
70% Nebbiolo cofermented with 30% Syrah from Breezy Slope Vineyard
Walla Walla AVA, 14.5% ABV
Not available
2017 Red Wine
100% Syrah from Eritage Vineyard, 70% whole cluster
Walla Walla AVA, 14.5% ABV
Not available