Fall 2025 Wine Club Newsletter

2023 Chardonnay $38
Aged and fermented in neutral French oak barrels, a slow, year-long fermentation gave this wine an opulent finish. The grapes came from our neighbor, Cassin Family Vineyards. Their volcanic soils lend a firm acid backbone. Pair with cheese, fish, chicken, pork (really anything but red meat and tomato sauce).

2024 Rosé of Pinot Noir $28
Our aromatic and full-flavored Rosé is made from fully ripe grapes. We allow the grapes to soak ‘on the skins’ for a few days before pressing and fermenting, which extracts more color and flavor from the grape skins. This Rosé is very food friendly and is a favorite for Thanksgiving.

2017 Pinot Noir Encore $40
2017 was our first vintage made entirely on our property. On our first day of harvest, the crew picked the grapes while our family sorted them. At the end of the day, we looked outside and the sky was Pinot Noir-purple! That summer was not as hot as previous years, so the wine is a little brighter and somewhat lighter in body than the 2015 and 2016. The 2017 Encore is a slightly different blend compared to our first 2017 release, but with a similar flavor profile. Still bright, with well-balanced acids, just a bit earthier, and very drinkable.
 
2016 Pinot Noir Encore $45
During the summer of 2016, the vines adjusted to their second year without irrigation by sending their roots down deep to find water. Bud break (when the leaves emerge) and flowering were both early. Harvest was in early September, the earliest ever in the Willamette Valley, creating a bold and fruity wine. This versatile wine pairs with steak, pizza, and a wide variety of foods, including those with a hint of fruit.
 
2015 Pinot Noir Encore ‘Ten-Year Release’ $55
Still the hottest summer on record in the Willamette Valley, and we stopped irrigating the vineyard that year! Yet the vines still thrived, which shows the tenacity of grape vines.  Bold and complex, the tannins from new oak barrels are softer now, but still notable. We released this in the spring of 2025, ten years after the 2015 budbreak in the vineyard.
 
2015 Pinot Noir Reserve ‘Ten-Year Release’ $65
Finally, we are releasing the last Pinot from 2015. This is a BIG wine… for us. Lush fruit, baking spices, and a lovely, multi-layered finish. It was worth the wait. Perfect to warm up your upcoming winter evenings. Released ten years after the 2015 harvest.

What are Encore and Reserve wines?
Encore Wines: Our Pinot Noir ‘Encore’ wines are a different blend of barrels than our original release of that vintage…. an ‘encore’ of the vintage.
Reserve Wines: Our Pinot Noir Reserve wines have a more complex profile, and ‘texture’ focused. That is, in the blending step, we include wine from barrels that are higher in tannin, then we age the wine in bottle until the tannins start integrating. In our wines, these higher tannin levels come from aging wine in new oak barrels, or from whole-cluster fermentation (fermenting grapes with the stems of the grape clusters).