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City Pop Pet Nat 2019

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Tasting notes

City Pop does something few pét-nats attempt: it blends two states, six grapes, and two entirely different winemaking approaches (direct press and 14-day skin contact) into a single bottle without any of it feeling forced. The result is simultaneously floral and tannic, fizzy and textured, with violet and tangerine up front and a savory, leesy finish that keeps you coming back.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
VioletTangerineWild StrawberryLychee
  • Style: Light-bodied sparkling; amber-rose; floral, tangerine, and leesy; 12% ABV
  • Grapes & Terroir: Viognier (Columbia Valley, WA, sandy loam, ~1,600ft); Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Auxerrois, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir (Willamette Valley, OR, volcanic, sandy loam, marine sediment, 600-1,000ft); sustainable/organic farming
  • Winemaking: Viognier and Pinot Noir direct press; remaining grapes 14-day skin maceration; all native yeast, no temp control; foot worked; bottle-fermented pét-nat; disgorged; small SO2 addition; no filtration
  • Serving: Serve at 40-45°F; no decant needed; drink young
  • Pairing: Korean banchan, pajeon, Thai salads, spiced fried chicken, soft washed-rind cheese
  • Similar To: For fans of skin-contact pét-nats and aromatic orange wines who want something lighter and effervescent

City Pop is a six-grape pét-nat that crosses state lines: Viognier comes from sandy loam soils in Washington's Columbia Valley at around 1,600 feet elevation in the Yakima area, while Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Auxerrois, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Noir are sourced from Willamette Valley sites at 600 to 1,000 feet, grown on a mix of sandy loam, volcanic soils, and marine sediment.

Winemaker Joe Swick handled each variety separately. Viognier and Pinot Noir were direct pressed and fermented with native yeast. Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Auxerrois, and Pinot Gris each received 14 days of skin maceration, with ferments worked by foot once or twice daily and no temperature control. The wine was bottled before fermentation finished to trap the bubbles, then disgorged before release. A small addition of sulfur at disgorgement is the only additive. No filtration.

The result sits between a pét-nat and an orange wine: the skin-contact whites give it a lightly tannic, textured body and an amber-rose hue, while the direct-press Pinot Noir and Viognier keep it fresh and floral. Expect violet, red berry, and tangerine notes alongside a leesy, slightly savory finish.

City Pop takes its name from a Japanese music genre that emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s. The wine drinks best cold, ideally within a year or two of release.

Joe Swick recommends serving it with banchan, and that instinct is right: the wine's light effervescence, gentle tannin from the skin-contact whites, and floral aromatics work well with spiced, fermented, or pickled flavors. Try it with Korean pajeon, Thai green papaya salad, or a soft cheese plate with fruit.

Wine details

Dry/Sweet:, Dry
Wine Type:, Sparkling Wine
Wine Style:, Sparkling
Grapes:, Viognier, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Auxerrois, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Farming:, Sustainable
Vintage:, 2019
Alcohol:, 12%
Country:, USA
Region:, Oregon
Appellation:, Willamette Valley AVA / Columbia Valley AVA
Bottle Size:, 750ml
Sugar Level:, Zero Added Sugar

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Producer profile

Swick Wines

Joe Swick is a fifth-generation Oregonian, born and raised in Portland. He entered the wine industry in 2001 working at a specialty organic food store in Portland, then took his first harvest position as a cellar assistant at Owen Roe in 2003. Over the following decade, he completed 15 harvests across Oregon, California's Russian River Valley, Portugal's Douro Valley, Italy's Piedmont, Tasmania, and France, including time with Simon Busser in Cahors and Julien Labet in the Jura. He returned to Oregon in 2013 and launched Swick Wines in the Willamette Valley.

Swick sources fruit exclusively from organically or biodynamically farmed vineyards in the cooler climate zones of Oregon and Washington State, with a preference for higher-elevation sites that yield lower sugars, higher acidity, and lower alcohol. He focuses on three distinct climate zones: the Willamette Valley, the Columbia Gorge, and the Columbia Valley around Yakima, Washington. Vineyards are not irrigated.

In the cellar, Swick uses only native yeast fermentations with no temperature control. No commercial additives are used. Many wines receive no sulfur at all; select wines, including City Pop, receive a small sulfur addition before or at bottling to ensure stability. All wines are unfined and unfiltered. Swick uses foot treading for skin-contact ferments, working the caps once or twice daily.

Wine region

Oregon, USA

The Willamette Valley AVA stretches roughly 150 miles from the Columbia River near Portland south to the Calapooya Mountains outside Eugene, running up to 60 miles wide between the Coast Range to the west and the Cascade Mountains to the east. Those two mountain ranges act as the valley's climate regulators: the Coast Range blocks cold Pacific storms, and the Cascades shield the valley from the arid eastern Oregon climate. The result is a long, temperate growing season with warm days, cool nights, and rainfall concentrated in winter and spring rather than during harvest.

The valley contains 11 nested sub-AVAs, including Dundee Hills (known for volcanic Jory soils), Eola-Amity Hills (cooled by winds through the Van Duzer Corridor), Chehalem Mountains, Yamhill-Carlton, Ribbon Ridge, and McMinnville. Soils vary significantly by site: volcanic basalt and Jory clay in the hills, Willakenzie marine sedimentary soils in Yamhill-Carlton, and alluvial silts on the valley floor. Pinot Noir dominates plantings, but Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Riesling, and Gamay are also well established. Swick sources white grapes for City Pop from higher-elevation Willamette Valley sites (600 to 1,000 feet) where cooler temperatures preserve acidity and aromatic intensity. The Viognier component comes from Washington's Columbia Valley near Yakima, a warmer, higher-elevation region at around 1,600 feet with sandy loam soils.

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