For years we, Earl and Hilda Jones, have pursued our passion for fine Spanish wine made from the Tempranillo grape. Our goal is to produce fine wine from that grape in America.
Thus, the "Abacela" idea was to find in America a similar climate to that of the finest Tempranillo growing areas in Spain. The "marginal" climate sought was hot enough to ripen the fruit but not so hot that it cooked out the essence of the grape. A climate which provided dry summers and cool but wet winters, relatively free of severe freezes to minimize potential cold injury to the vines.
Searches through tomes of wine books, climate records, and maps led us to the West Coast. The search ended in the Umpqua Valley in Southern Oregon, 11 miles southwest of Roseburg Oregon. Here, the vineyards bask by day in the hot summer sun and are cooled at night by Pacific Ocean breezes. The long growing season allows the fruit to ripen slowly and fully. Our Abacela idea, now a working winery, was christened Abacela, utilizing an old Castilian word that means "to plant grapevines."
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This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of crisp apples, pears, yellow peaches, lemon, kiwi, and delicate white flowers all carried on a frame that skirts the razors edge between creamy textures and steely minerality.
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The cool conditions on our estate's north facing hillsides allow this beautiful grape to slowly ripen while retaining its lively acidity. This Galician style wine exhibits aromas and flavors of crisp apples and pears, orange, pineapple, and delicate white flowers all carried on a frame that skirts...
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This Galician style wine exhibits aromas and flavors of crisp golden apples, citrus fruits, fleshy peach, almonds, and delicate white flowers all carries on a frame that skirts the razors edge between creamy textures and steely minerality.
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This 2009 vintage is the eighth release of this fruit forward, less tannic and earlier maturing Tempranillo, which was delicious upon bottling. The fruit sources included Abacela's West Slope block. The beautiful aromatics, focused red fruit flavors, and seamless finish will continue to improve...
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This is the seventh release of our fruit forward, less tannic and earlier maturing
Tempranillo, which was delicious upon bottling. The fruit sources included our West
Slope block. The beautiful aromatics, focused red fruit flavors, and seamless finish will
continue to improve over the next four...
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This Galician style wine exhibits aromas and flavors of crisp apples and pears, orange, pineapple, and delicate white flowers all carried on a frame that skirts the razors edge between creamy textures and steely minerality.
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This is the seventh release of our fruit forward, less tannic and earlier maturing Tempranillo, which was delicious upon bottling. The fruit sources included our West Slope block. The beautiful aromatics, focused red fruit flavors, and seamless finish will continue to improve over the next four to...
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The eleventh release of our flagship Tempranillo continues the tradition of quality and excellence expected from our terroir. The penetrating color and compelling aromas allude to the concentration of flavor which follow. Ripe black fruits, savory spice, and well defined tannins convincingly...
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This fruit forward, less tannic and earlier maturing Tempranillo was delicious at bottling. The fruit sources include predominately our estate's Fault Line Vineyards (85%) with the remaining 15% coming from McCorquodale and Delfino Vineyards. The beautiful aromatics, focused fruit flavors and...
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Our estate vineyards in Southern Oregon's Umpqua Valley are an ideal terroir for this noble Spanish varietal. The 2006 vintage, the tenth release of our signature Tempranillo, is deeply colored and powerfully structured with intense aromas and flavors of ripe black fruits, savory spice, cassis, and...
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