Art + Science Winery Is Releasing Some of the Most Interesting Wine Bottles in Oregon

The 2016 Pétillant-Naturel has layers of creamy strawberry rhubarb and pastry crust, cut through with pink-lemonade acidity and a Campari bitterness.

By Jordan Michelman

Kim Hamblin is the artist, Dan Rinke is the winemaker, and together they're releasing some of the most interesting bottles in Oregon under the name Art + Science.

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Rinke makes cider and wine, while Hamblin fashions the evocative cut-paper art that adorns each bottle, all of it done at the Roshambo Art Farm—a rock quarry, music venue and working farm, with vineyards out in Willamina. Art + Science makes a syrah, a pinot noir, and now a bottle-fermented pinot noir pétillant-naturel—effervescent and delicious, yet earthy and funky.

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This take on pét-nat wine has layers of creamy strawberry rhubarb and pastry crust, cut through with pink-lemonade acidity and a Campari bitterness that seems to be the calling card of Oregon pinot pét-nat. It's mildly effervescent, settling quickly into a mineral-driven wine that's somewhere between still and sparkling. Drink it ice cold, in place of an amaro or aperitif, or pair it with summer salad greens. Recommended.

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