Winemaker Notes
This wine is made from the only coastal vineyard just 22 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The long summer days are hot while it can dip down into the forties or fifties during the summer, the perfect climate for Pinot Noir. We planted this vineyard ourselves back in 2005 and, while we put more work into it than it can ever deliver in volume, the quality of this wine is sublime. Hints of mint, fennel, cherries and other light berried fruits. The cover crop is sprinkled with hundreds of wild plants that we seeded it with several years back. Everything done is this vineyard is Eco-friendly including our Warez bee hives.
Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.
The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.