Oregon Wine

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Ah-so THIS is what Willamette Valley Pinot Gris is supposed to taste like! From an organically farmed vineyard south of Salem, it's fermented and aged 50/50 in stainless steel and older French oak with... Read More

Organic/Bio The most mind-blowing Pinot Gris from the slightly insane grazing-based grape grower Stephen Hagen. As Wine Enthusiast said of the 93 point Perpetua I last year, “It's complex and leesy, with pear and melon... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV As a staff, we love the wines coming from Antiquum Farm and this wine is no exception! Stephen's Pinot Gris can range in colors all on the same vine and sometimes even the same berries. The resulting... Read More

Organic/Bio There are no other Willamette Valley Pinots like Stephen Hagen's Antiquum Farm wines, and no other Antiquum Farm wine like this. Here he's seeking to capture the essence of his unique vines and the remarkable... Read More

Organic/Bio There’s something joyfully incongruous about a bearded outdoors guy who wears flannel, farms his vineyard with horses, chickens, sheep, geese and (his own) children, and waxes on passionately about the quality... Read More

Organic/Bio In the past, Passiflora was the Antiquum Farm wine that made Willamette Valley Pinot Noir fans scratch their heads and mutter, Wait - what? There’s some of that in the 2021 edition, but just a touch more restrained,... Read More

Organic/Bio Very much a wow wine that's already showing layers of complexity and will keep on improving with ease. From younger blocks (meaning <20 years old) near the top of the vineyard, the 2021 serves up boisterous... Read More

If you think this is impressive right now (and it is!), just wait until you give it some time in decanter or a year or two in cellar. Plenty of succulent fruit but also amazing old-vine intensity from a large does of the vineyard's... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Bethel Heights has made wine from this very densely-planted site just next to Justice off and on for years before purchasing it and adding it to the estate in 2000. A little bit of Dundee Hills smoky richness... Read More

Brian Marcy and Claire Carver make some of the most purely delicious wines in the Willamette Valley and their 2021 Willamette Valley Chardonnay is a beauty. A barrel selection from all 7 vineyards they work with, it’s a... Read More

From 7 different vineyards, 100% whole cluster, stomped by foot, native yeast, basket pressed, aged 10 months in oak (just a little new) and bottled with as little sulfur as possible, this is just plain delicious. Dark fruited,... Read More

The first vintage of this wine I ever tasted was the 2007, a difficult harvest where many Willamette Valley vineyards struggled to achieve ripeness and depth as slow ripening across a cool summer was disrupted by autumn rains.... Read More

A lovely, elegant, take on Dundee Hills Pinot, one that shows plenty of Jory-soil dark fruit and earth/smoke character with uncommon freshness, transparency and lift. Plenty of fruit and richness and a nice burst of spice and... Read More

The oldest estate in the Dundee Hills is making the best Pinot's theyve ever bottled these days, and holding them back for release until ready. This is teriffic juice and priced well under some flashy newcomers' wines... Read More

Willy Gianopulos has been growing Pinot on the Laurelwood soils of the Chehalem Mountains since 1988 and making his own wine since 1998. With a winemaking heritage from his family in Greece, a chemical engineering degree from... Read More

John Grochau’s easy-drinking Pinot Noir Commuter Cuvee always gives us an unadulterated picture of the Willamette Valley vintage, here showcasing 2021’s lovely mixture of ripe fruit and fresh, light, texture. His hands-off... Read More

Not sure whether this is rose or orange wine, but it's wild and wildly delicious! The Early Muscat, Riesling and Petit Blanc were pressed as whole clusters very slowly, extracting a touch of color. The Pinot Gris was destemmed,... Read More

Kelley Fox's wines are all about focus, precision, deliniation, definition and cut. Which her lot of Freedom Hill Pinot Blanc takes to nicely. The crunchy peach, tangelo, green melon fruit gives the wine a core, and on that... Read More

Ken Wright has owned Canary Hill Vyd in the Eola Hills since 2006 and keeps almost all of it for himself. In 2019 and 2021, though, he allocated a little fruit to Kelley, just enough to make 151 cases of pure joy. It's a dark-fruited,... Read More

Tasting for a couple of hours with Kelley can leave one in a bit of a buzzed daze – not because of alcohol (we were spitting, honest!), but because topic after topic comes up, images are evoked and allowed to fade, and very... Read More

The vines Jim Maresh planted on their own roots back in 1970 is today arguably the best, and certainly one of the most important, vineyards in the Dundee Hills. Jim’s grandson uses almost all the fruit for his Arterberry... Read More

Although I suppose you could use it in a cocktail, this if vermouth to drink like wine, cool from the cellar or a short stay in the fridge and in a white wine glass. As Kelley’s collaborator on this project, Stephanie Sprinkle,... Read More

A vineyard that’s given Ken some his most exciting wines over the past few vintages. Ken owns and farms this marine sedimentary site with loving care. It’s not far from Savoya and Shea, but it often packs in even more... Read More

Always a favorite in Ken’s cellar, the Freedom Hills Pinot comes from a tiny slice (2.85 acres) of this well-respected vineyard lying between Eola Hills to the east and the Coastal Range to the west. A tad warmer than vineyards... Read More

Love the dark, smoky, intensity of wines grown on the volcanic Jory soils of the Dundee Hills? Well, then this is your Ken Wright because it delivers that rich depth for sure. The vineyard actually belongs to Ken’s son,... Read More