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2007 Chehalem Mountains Pinot Noir
Isabelle Dutartre
It is my passion! I have been a winemaker for more than 25 years and 1789 is my first label and my fourth child.
The backbone of my story is that I left my friends, my culture and my country to pursue a life in Oregon based around Pinot Noir.
My French is better than my English!
503.857.0225
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2008 Chehalem Mountains
Rosé of Pinot Noir
Nick and Sheila Nicholas
For the evenings we can sit on the deck, drink a glass of our own wine and watch the grapes grow.
Each of our wines are from the vineyard we plant and farm ourselves -- so we are 100% estate. It also allows us the wonderful opportunity to learn our vineyard’s special characteristics row by row and block by block. Taste the Chehalem Mountains terroir here!
We’ll be married 28 years in May! Driving the tractor is Nick’s fifth career move, and making wine is Sheila’s fourth. No more changes!
www.anamcaracellars.com
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2007 Willamette Valley Pinot Gris
Chris and W. Craig Baker
Wine turns science into art. I love
wine and I love my job. (Not many people can say the latter.)
Ancient Cellars gives my brother and me an opportunity to work together, exploring our love of wine and utilizing our expertise – his palate and business sense, and my knowledge of agriculture and science.
Every Ancient Cellar label name is a reference to some event or endeavor that connects to a charity we support.
www.ancientcellars.com
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2008 Oregon Rosé
Alfredo and Laurine Apolloni
Well, it is not a get rich quick scheme, although over the past year the grapes have definitely performed better than the market. The real answer is that I grew up working in vineyards and there is nothing more rewarding than starting the year with a bare canopy and ending with fantastic grapes which will produce great wine for many to share.
Delicious wines made by an Italian for you to enjoy - what more could you ask for?
We have trained our vineyard sheep to be
eco-mowers. No vines, just weeds.
www.apolloni.com
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2007 Chehalem Mountains Pinot Noir
Dave & Mary Hansen
Passion for Pinot! Yes, this phrase has been used in the past, but truly describes why we do this.
Since 2001, our mission has been to create the highest quality pinot possible, focusing on Estate-grown fruit. We are a boutique producer and strive to provide our clients with great wines and a great experience!
Dave, a city-guy from birth, and Mary, a farm-girl from way back, continue to operate ArborBrook Vineyards, when our 7-year-old daughter, Sydney, will let us. While we always planned on her taking over the operation at some point, we are a little surprised at how early she’s decided she can run things!
www.arborbrookwines.com
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2006 Chehalem Mountains Adams Vineyard Pinot Noir
2006 Willamette Valley Jubilee Vineyard Pinot Noir
2006 Oregon Washington Viognier
Tom & Patricia Feller
First - we are wine geeks at heart, then we outgrew the garage and finally, we just can’t drink all this wine ourselves!
We truly love Oregon and the Northwest and we want to make wines that reflect the uniqueness of the place we call home. To this end, we have selected small family vineyards to work with, where we know the person tending the vineyard is intimately familiar with the soil, the plants and caring for the vines.
I started fermenting things only because I had to give a speech on a “hobby” in a communications class in college. After giving the speech, I kept the borrowed equipment and kept right on brewing beer! (Beer is obviously a “gateway” fermentation beverage)!
www.artisanalwinecellars.com
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2007 Chehalem Mountains
Blakeslee Pinot Noir
Ron and Cindy Helbig
As much as I love engineering, my passion was to take those skill sets and design something just as unique in the form of wine.
We moved the family from California to the Sherwood area for a change of pace, I left my career as an engineer to become a college professor and started Barking Frog.
We are the first to craft an ice wine style Syrah.
www.barkingfrogwinery.com
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2006 Santa Barbara Syrah
Brian Marcy and Clare Carver
We are a winemaker and an artist, growing and producing what we love to eat and drink.
We moved to Oregon from Napa and bought some property in the Willamette Valley on which we plan to plant a vineyard. This Oregon adventure is inspired by our desire to grow grapes, make wine, and to have the space for all of Clare’s animals and Brian’s wacky projects.
We have 150 chickens, three cows, two working draft horses, 6-9 pigs a year, 4 goats, a guard lama named Edward and one very spoiled hound dog.
www.bigtablefarm.com
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2006 Willamette Valley Athena Pinot Noir
2007 Rogue Valley Grenache
2008 Willamette Valley Reflection Rosé
Athena Pappas and Stewart Boedecker
Winemaking is intellectual, sensual and primal. It is also completely immersive, private, personal and yet social and hedonistic.
We’ve stepped back in time to a simpler world. We rely on smells, flavors and colors. Science backs us up, as do friends. Aching muscles and 3 am wake-ups make us feel alive and honestly making wine together - proves we are.
We are very unsurprising. We came into the biz with no money, no connections or parental royalty. We work days, evenings, and weekends and refuse to spin a tale to fit the latest marketing trend. We love winemaking, wine, food, and learning about each other and ourselves.
www.boedeckercellars.com
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Oregon Brut
Ray Walsh
Raised as a Catholic boy, I guess my options were to make wine or bless it. As I’m a tad bit of a naughty lad… I left the frock behind in search of grapes.
Emotionally finished with the large commercially–corporate size wine production business, I focused my winemaking
passion towards my own artisan, hand crafted wines and B.S.
Left behind my life in New Zealand (land of sheep, rain, rivers and mountains) and landed in the Willamette Valley, land of… Oop’s – bugger!
www.capitellowines.com
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2007 Willamette Valley Roads End Pinot Noir
2007 Yamhill-Carlton District Cape Lookout Pinot Noir
Dave Grooters
I love making well-crafted, fine wines – from driving a backhoe and planting a new block in the vineyard to rotating barrels in the winery.
In 1979, I came out from the East coast to visit my old army buddy Nick. No ordinary Nick, though — this is Nick Peirano, the man behind Nick’s Italian Café in McMinnville. Nick introduced me to a few of his good friends — like David Adelsheim, Dick Erath, Myron Redford, Dick Ponzi, and David Lett. Every time I’d visit Nick, there’d be these great winemakers, there’d be dancing on the counters, there’d be food and wine and frolicking, and I thought this is how Oregon was all the time. So I moved. Eventually, planting Russell-Grooters Vineyard on Savannah Ridge.
Not everybody knows I’m an erstwhile jazz pianist and auto racer.
www.carltoncellars.com
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2006 Yamhill-Carlton District Pinot Noir
David C. Polite
My hero Thomas Jefferson grew
grapes so I thought I’d try to emulate him.
I like to make good wine but just don’t take it too seriously.
I like to sip a good scotch just about as much as I like sipping a good wine. Summer evenings I might be found sipping one of the two while playing a game of croquet.
www.carltonhillwines.com
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2007 Willamette Valley Satori Springs Pinot Noir
2007 Willamette Valley Satori Springs Pinot Gris
Chris and Susanne Carlberg
Farming and working the vineyard connects me to the earth, which is a great joy. I love the music of hard work. I believe in contemplative living and everything I do in winegrowing has its origins there.
After college I eventually wound up back on the family farm - a teacher, struggling to make ends meet and keep the beloved farm afloat. At 51, I reluctantly followed the advice of an in-law (and successful winemaker) and started a two-acre vineyard. Nine years later, I was hooked. After six vintages of having other people “manufacture” my grapes into wine, I decided to give that a shot, too. At the age of 60 in 2007, I produced my first estate pinot noir and pinot gris. The vineyard was 10 years old.
We promote world peace causes via donating 10% of the sale of our 2006 “Dona Nobis Pacem” Pinot Noir.
www.christopherbridgewines.com
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2006 McMinnville Renelle’s Block Pinot Noir
2006 McMinnville Riesling
Lisa and Scott Neal
Since our family lives on the land that is our vineyard, for us, it is all about the connection with the land and how our actions and intentions transcend into the wine. Oh, and we couldn’t afford great Pinot, so we decided to make it.
We feel that we truly embody the Indie ideal and spirit. We bought the bare land, have grafted and planted every vine on the property, have watched them grow from little sticks to a fully mature vineyard and make the wine at our winery on the property. We strive to create an honest and pure wine that reflects a time and place in each bottle we produce.
We have never seen the movie Sideways! We found our property on our first trip to Oregon by getting lost on an out of the way gravel road.
www.cdtvineyard.com
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2006 Dundee Hills Thomas Pinot Noir
2006 Eola-Amity Hills Alyssa Pinot Noir
Jackie and Pat Dukes
Pinot is our passion and it is better than a mid-life crisis.
Dukes Family Vineyards wines are hand crafted with estate fruit pursuant to a minimalist approach allowing the unique terroir and complexity characteristics of the vineyards to be fully expressed.
Our son is currently an Apache Longbow Helicopter Pilot in the Army.
www.dukesfamilyvineyards.com
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2006 Eola-Amity Hills Pinot Noir
2007 Yamhill-Carlton District Pinot Noir
Howard and Jessica Mozeico
It was either slave away at our former careers or pursue our passions of wine, family, and running our own business. It was a close choice, but tasting through the barrels won us over.
Et Fille, which means “and daughter,” honors the hand-in-hand, father and daughter team that make these wines. We strive to bring the devotion and warmth from our relationship to each glass - from its endearing Pinot Noir fragrance to its long finish. We always deal in small lots of grapes (so that we can get just the clones we want), small fermentation lots (which gives us enhanced flexibility in our winemaking), and small European oak barrels (which can help in the wine’s complexity). We always sort, punch-down, and top-off by hand so that we are close to the wine every step along the way to the bottle.
The Et Fille logo - consisting of the two holding hands - was designed by Michael Dudok de Wit, whose short animated film, Father and Daughter, won the 2000 Academy Award. In another life, Howard designed a tool for animators, so we asked Michael to create the Et Fille symbol of hand crafted wines by a father-and-daughter team.
www.etfillewines.com
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2006 Rogue Valley Syrah
2007 Rogue Valley Viognier
Rob Folin
Working with my family to create a product and lifestyle that we can both enjoy is at the core of what we do and why we do it. From the vineyard to the winery, we hope to provide a sustainable business for future generations.
Rob Folin graduated from Oregon State with a degree in fashion merchandising. After working retail, he returned to college to pursue his true passion: a career in winemaking. Along with his parents, Scott and Loraine, the trio mapped out a plan to turn their ranch in Southern Oregon into an Estate vineyard and winery. While Rob gained vital on the job training, the Folin’s converted their baby Kiwi/alfalfa farm into vineyards. Today Folin Vineyards in the Rogue Valley is home to 25 acres of Viognier, Tempranillo, Syrah, Petite Sirah, Mourvedre and Grenache grapes and is the location of our 10,000 square foot winery, opening to the public in the summer of 2009.
Oregon is not all about the pinot! Folin Cellars produces 100% estate grown warm climate varietals including Viognier, Tempranillo and Syrah. Try them!
www.folincellars.com
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2006 Columbia Valley Tre Nova Secopassa
Gino Cuneo
For the chance to follow in the steps of ancient winemaking.
Italian style meets American soil. We bring an Italian sensibility to viticulture and winemaking using only Italian varietals, allowing them to express themselves in the unique climate and soils of the Pacific Northwest.
I was a professional chef and International seafood trader. I now make wine and as of late am working on poetry. (I have a knack for picking money makers).
www.ginocuneocellars.com
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2008 Willamette Valley Pinot Gris
Thane Hawkins
After working behind a computer for
most of my adult life, I can’t tell you how much pleasure I get from working out in the vineyard and making wine.
I became enraptured with the Willamette Valley wine culture soon after arriving in Oregon in 2002. I soon began making my own wine and trying to learn as much as possible about the industry and wine making. A fortuitous stint of unemployment allowed me to work harvest in 2006. In 2007, I began working with Chris Lubberstedt at Methven Family Vineyards. Prior to the ‘07 harvest, I asked Chris if he would be open to allowing me to produce a small commercial batch of my own wine. The rest, as they say, is history.
I have worked on four computer animated feature films. Ask me about them!
www.hawkinscellars.com
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2007 Willamette Valley Pinot Blanc
Jonathan Oberlander
You can go to the “office” (and I use the term very loosely) in shorts, a ball cap and a three day beard.
What’s Oregon’s best kept wine secret? Kick-ass Cab and Syrah..... I kid you not!
Besides great wine, why is Oregon special? The people, the beer, the fishing, the beer, the skiing, the beer and oh yeah the weather.
www.jscottcellars.com
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2007 Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Dag Johan Sundby
My family and I love Burgundian varietals, and we want to share them with others to see the smile on their faces!
Elegance, balance, complexity and ageability. That’s what our wines are about.
I’m from Norway. My name, Dag “Johan” Sundby, is how we got the name Johan Vineyards.
www.johanvineyards.com
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2007 McMinnville Pinot Noir
Kelley Fox
Three reasons: one, it is beautiful - even when it is not; two, I am true to myself doing this; and three, perhaps I am being punished for abusing power in a past life (joking).
I have been a full-time Oregon winemaker for almost 10 years and I want to have more connection with the people who drink the wine I make. A lot more. Because really, it’s not about the winemaker – it’s about the people enjoying the wine. What I love most about Pinot is its transparency. I prefer authenticity and even grit to armchair idealism. Pinot does this. There is something so real about it, for the better or the worse.
I lived in the Netherlands for six years as a child.
503.679.5786
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Applegate Valley Sparkling Chardonnay
2007 Applegate Valley Dolcetto
2007 Applegate Valley Chardonnay
Maria Largaespada and Matthew Sorensen
It is more fun than tinkering with
test tubes - my husband and I are from the pharmaceutical industry.
I once asked my husband what he would do for a living if he could do anything he wanted. He replied, “grow grapes and make (damn) fine wine.” It sounded like a good idea at the time...
Matthew Sorensen (my husband) is a 2nd degree black belt in aikido. The name LongSword is my last name (Larga is long, espada is sword) in English (no one can ever pronounce it).
www.longswordvineyard.com
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2005 Umpqua Valley
Jones Road Cabernet Franc
Steve and Christy Simmons
It is quite literally one of the best ways to experience the fruits of your labor.
Misty Oaks is and will remain a small operation whereby each step of wine growing (subject to cooperation of MN) and wine making may be orchestrated to achieve an expectation. As of the ’07 vintage, all operations take place on the vineyard and winery property.
After 30+ years as residents of the state of Alaska, we are now in our 10th year in the business in the Umpqua appellation.
www.mistyoaksvineyard.com
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2005 Yamhill-Carlton District Pinot Noir
2006 Yamhill-Carlton District Pinot Noir
Ron and Linda Moore
To prove life does indeed begin at….
well you guess the age of the farmer in the picture.
We get our hands dirty (it is agriculture after all), we grow terrific fruit, make darned good wine and love it that we count our customers as our friends!
There really is a “Monks” Gate between our vineyard and the Trappist Abbey’s property. Check out the story on our label and/or our website.
www.monksgate.com
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2006 Southern Oregon Tempranillo
2006 Walla Walla Valley Syrah
John Bacon and Jane Smith
There are just two of us, we’re crazy,
and we love hands-on challenges.
We’re one of the smallest commercial wineries around, we only make big reds, and our hearts are in every bottle.
We met over a bottle of Cabernet 27 years ago and the romance continues.
www.nuthatchcellars.com
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2006 Willamette Valley Estate Pinot Noir
Sean Driggers
After working for years in high
technology, mostly sitting behind a computer, I wanted to do something that kept me active and moving. Growing wine grapes and making wine has certainly provided me lots of activity and I’ve found a career that demands the most from my full range of talents.
We planted Pinot Noir wine grapes on our family farm in 2004 and started our winery operations in 2006 after completing our education in viticulture and enology from the Chemeketa Community College program in Salem.
Starting a wine business like we have has taken an incredible amount of resources that I never would have imagined before we got started. We have relied greatly on friends and family and others in the business for guidance and help in getting our business off of the ground.
www.puddingriver.com
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2006 Rogue Valley Syrah
2006 Applegate Valley Cabernet Franc
Herb Quady
A mix of unfettered optimism and misguided romanticism.
We are a family winery that specializes in small lots of Syrah, Viognier and Cabernet Franc from Southern Oregon. The whole extended family plays a part, including parents and in-laws. We believe in the potential of our region and are committed to rich, unique wines capable of singular expression.
Our daughter, Margaux, is a martial arts champ. She knows 11 ways to disable her attacker and instill submission.
www.quadynorth.com
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2006 Ribbon Ridge Estate Grown Pinot Noir
2006 Ribbon Ridge Dewey Kelly Pinot Noir
Oregon Dewey Kelly Early Muscat
Dewey and Robin Kelly
If I had a nickel for every time a friend, relative, or accountant asked me that, I could retire. But the simple answer is we do it because we love it, are passionate about it, and would probably do it even if we had all of those nickels.
We are both food people (I was and Robin still is a professional chef) and our love of wine evolved through pairing wine with food. As a result, we tend to make wines that pair well with food. Because if you aren’t eating food with your wine, you might as well drink grappa.
We purchased the land for our vineyard on Ribbon Ridge in 1978, at a time when there were few, if any, vineyards developed in what are now the Ribbon Ridge and Yamhill-Carlton AVAs. It took us 25 years to realize the dream of producing our first pinot noir but we are pretty happy with the decision we made back in 1978.
www.ribbonridge.com
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2006 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon
David Rizzo
I was born to do this; I just wish I had
figured it out 20 years earlier.
Unrelenting passion and a lot of hard work lead to drive and results that can only be equaled by another’s passion. The most passionate winemakers make the best wines.
I moved 60 cubic yards of dirt out from under my home in 5-gallon buckets just to have a place to make and cellar my wine.
www.rizzowinery.com
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2006 Rogue Valley Del Rio Vineyards Syrah
Robyn and Kevin Howard
We wanted a break from our day jobs!
Séjourné is to be rested, to be resident in a place. We celebrate our first vineyard & winery estate, our place of rest, with Séjourné.
Two kids plus two jobs, a vineyard & winery - we never sleep!
www.sejournewines.com
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2007 Umpqua Valley Delfino Vineyard Dolcetto
Jim Seufert
Wine inspires great insights and memorable experiences. I’m just doing my part to help make the world a better place to live.
Superb wines, great prices, zero pretension.
We make our wines in a recycled building. Long time Dayton residents still call our place “the worm farm.”
www.seufertwinery.com
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2007 Eola-Amity Hills Reserve Pinot Noir
Byron Dooley
Winemaking is one of the few things
that so fully satisfies both scientific and creative drives, while engaging so many of the senses.
Strong memories of those first Oregon Pinot Noirs I tasted while attending OSU in the early 80’s -- it took twenty years, but I finally found a path to making them.
Named our wine after our remarkable cat, Seven. Classic story: boy meets cat, boy loses cat, boy and cat are reunited and live happily ever after. Full story online.
www.sevenofheartswine.com
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2006 Ribbon Ridge Premier Estate Pinot Noir
2004 Willamette Valley Styring Afterglow
Kelley and Steve Styring
To add as much sensuality to our lives as possible.
We are white collar migrant workers,
who’ve lived in a bunch of places just to make a living. We quit our corporate jobs, sold everything we own, and drove ourselves to Oregon to build an authentic family vineyard and winery experience for ourselves and our young children. We hand craft wines from varietals that love to live in Oregon as much as we do.
We believe that wines should be distinctive and reflect the character of the winemaker. We are not crafting to anyone else’s standards. If no one buys these wines, we’ll drink happily for eight years.
www.styringvineyards.com
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2007 Dundee Hills Pinot Blanc
Jon and Laura Jennison
Pinot Noir. The color of the grapes in the vineyard as they ripen, the smell as they ferment and then age in oak barrels and ultimately the taste in the glass. When the wine gods smile upon you and you get it right, there is nothing quite like it in the world.
There was a girl, a near perfect glass of Pinot, a career change, a bit of education, a quest for the perfect dirt, and then trials and tribulations interspersed with moments of pure joy. And therein lies a number of tales.
I was a banker in a former life. (And no, I am not in anyway responsible for the current economic mess).
www.thistlewines.com
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2007 Columbia Valley
Coyote Canyon Vineyard Primitivo
Edward Fus
It needed to be done! Some fantastic Zinfandel and Primitivo is grown in small blocks in but a select few of Washington’s finest vineyards.
First, some degrees in Horticulture and Mining Engineering, followed by a career as a consulting Environmental Engineer. I grew up outside of Philly, moved to Denver with Angel #1, became Dad to Angels #2 & #3. I liked wine and always had a green thumb, so moved to Oregon. Planted my vineyard. Got totally sucked into the vortex.
Some of the best advice I got on my wine journey was, “be true to yourself and the fruit and you will make good wine.” I have tried to live by these words.
www.threeangelswine.com
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2007 Chehalem Mountains Brigita Pinot Noir
2007 Chehalem Mountains Mirabelle Pinot Noir
2007 Chehalem Mountains 3-Clones Pinot Noir
Don Hagge
I love farming and striving to make great wines.
A high-tech exec returning to his roots.
A physics PhD from the NASA Apollo program.
www.vidonvineyard.com
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2006 Willamette Valley Reserve Pinot Noir
2007 Willamette Valley Timothy Pinot Noir
Matt Driscoll
Simple. I love wine and everything about the process of creating it. Making wine is an art and a science that’s very closely tied with the seasons of the earth. Producing a wine that puts a smile on people’s faces when they try it lets me know that I’ve made the right career decision.
A vacation from the east-coast to attend a wedding in Amity, Oregon turned into a dream to start a wine business to make world-class Pinot Noir. After getting married in 2000, we decided to take the plunge, for better or for worse, and to pursue our dream, moving from Virginia to Oregon, all in the name of Pinot. “WildAire” comes from Matthew’s mother’s estate in Roanoke, Virginia. The name was carved into a granite fireplace of an old house on McAffee’s Knob.
I’m a Capricorn (born on Christmas Day). My turn-ons are: my wife, wine, guitar, cheesy things, beer, Jameson’s and growing things. My turn-offs are: people that don’t like all these same things. You gotta have standards.
www.wildairecellars.com
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2007 Dundee Hills Pinot Noir
2007 Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Donna Morris and Bill Sweat
Second careers, well planned next chapter, the pursuit of our shared passion – all in some way describes our new life in Oregon. (Really – it wasn’t a mid-life crisis!)
Crafting elegant, sensuous, and age-worthy wines for those who view the pairing of wine and food as essential to their lifestyle, well-being and sanity!
Bill comes from a long line of “teetotalling” Southern Baptists. (Donna had no such challenge in her Irish Catholic family).
www.winderlea.com
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2006 Rogue Valley Meritage
Kevin Howard
We outgrew our garage! And we saw opportunities for Oregon wine styles that are underrepresented.
Zenas Wines is named for our great-great-grandfather who came over the Oregon Trail in 1856 – you will find a single Oregon vineyard designated on every bottle!
Zenas Howard was able to grow a great beard. Descendant vintners Blake & Kevin Howard? Not so much.
www.zenaswines.com
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