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Dundee Hills AVA

Élevée Vineyard

Bella Vida Vineyard

Eola-Amity Hills AVA

Ingram Lane Vineyard

Zena Crown Vineyard

Palmer Creek Vineyard

McMinnville AVA

Aegrina Vineyard

Hyland Vineyard

Ribbon Ridge AVA

Bramble Hill Vineyard

Yamhill-Carlton AVA

Fennwood Vineyard

Wapato Ridge Vineyard

Penner-Ash Winery and Tasting Room

Shea Vineyard

Penner-Ash Estate Vineyard

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Élevée Vineyard

Owned and farmed by Tom and France Fitzpatrick, Élevée is situated in the heart of the Dundee Hills.  We source both 115 and 777 clones from this small vineyard planted in 1998. Élevée gives us classic Dundee Hills red fruit and spice.

Élevée is a certified LIVE and Salmon Safe vineyard.

Planted: 1998

Elevation: 490′ – 540′

Aspect: South

Soils: Jory

Spacing: 1m x 1.3m single cane guyot, vertical trellis

AVA: Dundee Hills

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Bella Vida Vineyard

We have become known for our fruit driven elegance and textured wines. As our brand grows we continually search out vineyards that will add to the blend. Bella Vida brings us dense, almost sweet blackberry fruit from the 777 block, more spice and nuanced red fruit from the 667 planting and the upfront red almost black intensity of the 115. Another beautiful vineyard nestled in the Dundee Hills. Bella Vida is owned by Steve and Allison Whiteside.

Planted: 1998

Elevation: 600′ – 880′

Aspect: Southwest and West

Soils: Jory

Spacing: 8 x 5 vertical trellis

AVA: Dundee Hills

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Ingram Lane Vineyard

Planted: 2008-2009

Elevation: 250′ – 500′

Aspect: South to East

Soils: Willamette, Melbourne and Jory

Spacing: 7 x 5

AVA: Ribbon Ridge

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Zena Crown Vineyard

Zena Crown is located towards the southern end of the Eola-Amity Hills AVA, home to many of Oregon’s finest Pinot Noir vineyards.  During the growing season, ocean breezes push through the Van Duzer Corridor in the Coastal Range maintaining a consistently cool climate that is the hallmark of all great Pinot Noir winegrowing regions.  This climate, combined with the shallow, well-drained volcanic soils of the Nekia series that dominate the AVA are the primary reasons the Eola-Amity Hills AVA is emerging as one of the most world’s most exciting winegrowing regions.  We source Dijon clone 777 from Zena Crown.

Zena Crown is a certified LIVE and Salmon Safe vineyard.

Planted: 2004

Elevation: 400′ – 550′

Aspect: Southeast

Soils: Nekia

Spacing: 1.6M x 1.0M  vertical trellis

AVA: Eola-Amity Hills

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Palmer Creek Vineyard

Owners Janet and Larry Richards are extremely passionate about their vineyard. We have been buying fruit from this site since its first crop and have enjoyed watching the site mature. We contract a diverse selection of the clone types planted here. 114, 777 and Pommard all are grown on this exceptional site. Palmer Creek is the backbone of consistency in our Willamette Valley Pinot Noir blend along with a small bottling single vineyard selection for our Cellar Club members.

Palmer Creek is a certified LIVE and Salmon Safe vineyard.

Planted: 2000

Elevation: 250′ – 350′

Aspect: East

Soils: Yamhill and Woodburn

Spacing: 5 x 8 vertical trellis

AVA: Eola-Amity Hills

Aegrina Vineyard

Aegrina Vineyard is owned by Jay Lee and farmed by Vinetenders. This southeast facing slope in the McMinnville AVA is planted to Dijon clones 777, 114, 115, 828 and 943. Pommard, Wädenswil and Coury clones round out this diverse planting of Pinot Noir. The soils are primarily a complex series of Witzel, Yamhill and Gelderman with Witzel being the dominate soil.

Planted: 2008

Elevation: 500′ – 750′

Aspect: Southeast

Soils: Panther, Stony Land, Steiwer Variant

Spacing: 8 x 4

AVA: McMinnville

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Hyland Vineyard

Hyland Vineyard is one of Oregon’s largest and oldest vineyards. It’s grapes have contributed to decades of top scoring wine for benchmark producers. Joel Myers, one of Oregon’s top viticulturist says the vineyard’s combination of soil, microclimates and elevation in addition to some of the oldest and best plantings, produces fruit of consistently outstanding quality.

Planted: 1971

Elevation: 600′ – 800′

Aspect: East

Soils: Jory

Spacing:  8 x 5 vertical trellis

AVA: McMinnville

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Bramble Hill Vineyard

Located on the western side of Ribbon Ridge, the site benefits from its southern exposure, gentle slope and elevation. Planted exclusively to Pinot Noir, Bramble Hill Vineyard produces fruit for premium wines. The fruit embodies terroir unique to Ribbon Ridge and consist of grafted clones: 115, 777, Pommard and Wädenswil. Meticulously farmed using sustainable practices, the vineyard reflects the owners’ passion and commitment to long-term stewardship of the land and vines.

Bramble Hill is certified LIVE and Salmon Safe.

Planted: 2008

Elevation: 480′ – 530′

Aspect: South

Soils: Willakenzie series – Wellsdale, Wellsdale-Dupee and Goodin-Dupee

Spacing:  4 x 7

AVA: Ribbon Ridge

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Fennwood Vineyard

Planted: 2007-2008

Elevation: 260′ – 380′

Aspect:

Soils: Missoula Flood

Spacing: 6 x 4

AVA: Yamhill-Carlton

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Wapato Ridge Vineyard

Wapato Vineyard is owned by Jay Lee and farmed by Vinetenders. This southeast facing slope in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA is planted to Dijon clones 777 and 828 along with Pommard and Wädenswil. The soils include both volcanic and marine sedimentary.

Planted: 2008

Elevation: 360′ – 390′

Aspect: Southeast

Soils: Equal mix of volcanic and marine sedimentary

Spacing: 8 x 4

AVA: Yamhill-Carlton

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Penner-Ash Winery and Tasting Room

Some buildings are more than just structures. The special ones give you a sense of place, a feel for the heart of the people who live and work in them, a tactile sense of the terrain on which they are built. Just as a good wine makes us experience the world through our senses, tasting the earth, air and water from which the fruit came, to step inside an extraordinary building is to gain a deeper experience of the world around you. The Penner-Ash winery, completed in 2005, is such a place. Nestled into a hillside overlooking the Chehalem Valley, the building seems to spring from the land itself and reflects our values, spirit and winemaking philosophy.

Penner-Ash Pinot Noirs and Syrahs are often described as “elegant and earthy, structured and thoughtful.”  These qualities come from a fundamental notion of transparency. We make our wines with a desire to break down barriers and to expose the winemaking mystery – to do away with pretense and bring us closer to the source. We have built that desire for transparency and closeness to nature into our winery building. Embraced by 80 acres of land, the winery is stepped into the hillside on three levels and positioned to take full advantage of the breathtaking and expansive views of the Chehalem Valley bounded by the Chehalem Mountains to the north and the Red Hills of Dundee to the south. The surrounding property is planted with 15 acres of Pinot Noir grapes and 2005 was the vineyard’s first harvest.

From inside the building, one has the illusion that the roof is floating, thanks to the wrap-around clerestory windows, revealing views of both Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson. Transparency also plays a large part in the layout of the winery design, built so the tasting room has a view of the winemaking space through the windows and to the outdoors. Everywhere, natural, diffused sunlight brings the outdoor beauty of Oregon inside. Designed by WaterLeaf Architecture and Interiors and built by O’Brien Constructors LLC, the winery celebrates the Northwest and its Pacific Rim location with local, natural materials and clean, simple lines. Visitors enter the winery through a large pair of beautiful handcrafted doors that lead to a generously-sized tasting room on the top floor.

Every detail of the 16,000 square-foot building is designed not only to facilitate, but enhance, the winemaking process. Human ergonomics are combined with the requirements of the wine itself. The building’s multiple levels were designed to employ gravity to simply and naturally allow the fruit to flow from crush pad to fermentation tanks to barrels, avoiding the damage that comes from forcefully pumping the wine from one processing stage to another.  Heavy lifting is abolished and worker health, safety and equality are protected by making the entire operation accessible by forklift and catwalks. Covered outdoor work areas keep workers out of the Oregon rain and hot summer sun. The building also was designed with noise abatement in mind, using concrete barriers to dampen mechanical sounds.

Additionally, energy conservation was a primary consideration. The winery’s clerestory windows capitalize on day lighting to enhance the work environment while reducing energy consumed for electrical lighting. These windows allow for natural ventilation, flushing the underside of the vaulted ceiling where warm summer air collects. The wine production and storage areas are carved right into the hillside, which minimizes swings in temperature and humidity and helps achieve the desired atmosphere for proper cellaring of wine in barrels and bottle. Natural building materials from local sources reduced energy expenditures from transportation.

The design process for the new winery was much like the way we make wine. In winemaking, hundreds of decisions need to be made and they come from a combination of experience, diligence and instinct. Individual wisdom and intuition dictates those decisions. We all worked with WaterLeaf in much the same way, allowing our internal wisdom and experience to guide us with same diligent care and attention to detail.

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Shea Vineyard

Shea Vineyard has been called by many the Grand Cru Vineyard of Oregon. Our Pommard, 777, 114 and Wädenswil blocks consistently provide spice and structure to the wines. Our own property’s close proximity to Shea Vineyard was a major factor in the decision to purchase, plant and build our vineyard and winery in the neighborhood. Shea Vineyard is owned by Dick and Deidra Shea.

Planted: 1989

Elevation: 350′ – 620′

Aspect:  South

Soils: Willakenzie and Melbourne

Spacing: 5 x 7 vertical trellis

AVA: Yamhill-Carlton

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Penner-Ash Estate Vineyard

We were able to use soil surveys to choose the clone placement in the vineyards. We chose the 114 on sedimentary soils looking for spiciness. The 115 on volcanic soils to provide us with up front juicy fruit and the Pommard for the mid-mouth feel and texture that is so important in Pinot Noir. We have rounded out our 15 acres with Dijon 667 and 777 as each brings a lovely red and black fresh fruit note to wines. Our

Our Estate is a certified LIVE and Salmon Safe vineyard.

Planted: 2003

Elevation: 350′ – 500′

Aspect: Southeast

Soils: Jory and Willakenzie

Spacing: 4.5 x 7 vertical trellis

AVA: Yamhill-Carlton District

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