Winemaker Notes
Stermer is our estate vineyard, located across the road from our winery, and named after the family who farmed a prune orchard on this site for much of this last century. The vineyard is SE facing with an altitude of 200-450 feet, and planted to a high percentage of the Wadensvil and Pommard clones. After nearly a year and a half in barrel, it was bottled unfiltered and then given an additional six months bottle age before release to further soften, mellow and gain in complexity.
While the Willamette Valley and Pinot Noir are a like a fairy tale match made in heaven, most of Oregon is in fact, a glorious source of Pinot noir. Claiming over half of its total area under vine, Pinot noir also thrives in Southern Oregon’s Umpqua and Rogue Valleys where sedimentary and volcanic soils dominate hillside vineyards and cool temperatures create the perfect environment for Pinot noir. Also, Oregon’s Columbia Gorge is becoming increasingly popular for Pinot noir production. What sets Oregon Pinot noir apart from the Pinot of other regions, both New and Old World, is its innate combination of grace with both power and restraint.
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