Wines

For those interested in joining our Wine Club, you will enjoy 20% savings on all purchases. Our 2019 Fall shipment offers a variety of our current releases:

2018 Estate Les Pinots Noir & Gris (x2 bottles)

2018 Moonglow Pinot Noir (2x bottles)

Library Vintage (2012-2016) Estate Pinot Noir( 2x bottles)

We ship 6 bottles automatically twice a year to Club members. We welcome any requests for substitution of any of the wines in our Wine Club shipments. Please note that by purchasing our Wine Club bundle, you are consenting to the terms of our Wine Club membership. Email us at info@lichenestate.com and we'll be glad to make the desired changes. Enjoy!

Our fruit-forward 2018 Moonglow Pinot Noir practically jumps out of the glass. Raspberries and cherries explode in the nose. Grippy tannins flood your mouth. Use caution while quaffing this youthful zinger...

Our 2018 Pinot Gris offers Lichen’s richest take yet on this dazzlingly aromatic varietal. Opulent and ripe fruit abounds, yet the wine remains jazzy and refreshing. Clocking in at 13.7% alcohol, it strays from our more restrained prior vintages, but it’s been a crowd pleaser in the tasting room and a new favorite among the staff.

Our Estate sparkling wine takes inspiration from classic French champagnes, intended for serious fans of good bubbly. Made of 100% Pinot Gris, the wine is Alsace-scented, with incisive green apple accenting the aromas of diesel and lees. This sparkler is full-bodied and fruit driven on the palate, with a laser focus. A complete wine with a surprising character.

Representing the best five barrels of Lichen Estate’s Pinot Noir for the vintage, the 2017 Estate delivered one of our most concentrated vintages ever for Pinot Noir, on par with the gorgeous 2014. Black cherry and red cherry battle to an aromatic draw in the nose. Incredible depth of fruit on the palate is lifted by young tannins that promise to grow silkier over time. This beauty will not disappoint. Will continue to improve in the cellar for a decade.

The 2018 Les Pinots Noir & Gris follows the racy, focussed tradition of this bottling since its inception in 2012. WIth 70% of the fruit coming from sparkling wine press cuts this is an acid lover's dream. Add in the lemony citrus notes and a savory finish of crushed granite and you will see why our white wines are unique, none more than this gem.

Lichen's 2017 White Pinot Noir delivers a gorgeous floral nose followed by a mouthfull of gravelly minerality and stone fruit. This unique wine, fermented mostly in stainless went on to age for a year in Hungarian oak puncheons, bringing a weight and texture all its own. Off dry on the entry, it finishes mouthwatering and savory.  

Six years in the making, our 2012 Grand Cuvée spent 52 months en tirage and more than a year under cork after disgorging, this wine deserves the moniker "tête de cuvée" or the best of our best. Fine bubbles in the glass give way to a complex nose of fresh baked bread and toasted chestnuts in the nose. Racy on entry, broad in the mid-palate and mouth watering on the finish, the Grand Cuvée continuously delights. 

This multi-vintage blend from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is named for the time-honored aging and blending process used to create the world’s great Sherries and Madeiras. This wine comprises ¾ from the recent vintage, so remains fresh and alive like a “regular” Pinot Noir but with great complexity from the barrel-aged components. Ripe red fruit aromas mingle with toasted oak, bourbon, and tobacco. Coconut, rhubarb, and strawberry join in its complex bouquet of flavors, all textured like raw silk. As you enjoy this “Solera” from Lichen, reflect that two barrels were kept to blend into future Soleras. 

A mulit-vintage blend from 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 estate Pinot Noir grapes. Made with the time-honored aging and blending process used to create the world's great Sherries and Madeiras.

The 2015 vintage marked the tail end of four years of drought, which meant a very light, concentrated crop. For the 2015 sparkling, that meant not just concentrated and explosive fruit character, but also incredible acidity. We balanced that acidity with a generous dosage (at least compared to Lichen’s standard!) of 11.5 grams per liter (i.e. 1.15% sugar). The vintage feels a little more weighty compared to prior vintages, but still skips a light fandango in the mouth