Deep Roots

Why old vines, why blended together?

For more than 30 years these vines have reached deep into the soil, navigating rocks and breaking apart millennia of creation in a nervous search for water, minerals, nutrients and the stability of home. If they are at home, these roots become a looking glass to everything that has battered, shaped and graced the land, from volcanic activity to glacial floods to the tribulations of the souls harvesting its bounty.  

Our vineyards: Hyland, Vitae Springs, Durant, Wind Hill, Wahle and a more youthful Johnson (Lemelson). These are old vines in unique places, nurtured by attentive growers, echoing their special spot on the earth. We carefully selected these vineyards because each site expresses the Willamette Valley in an articulate voice. Individually they are beautiful and unique, yet together their harmony resonates. United they form a family. Like children, they might annoy one another and have even been known to argue, but ultimately an unbreakable bond is forged. They eventually learn they need each other, they are at home together. Together they are better, richer, more complex and more balanced; together they tell a more complete story of the Willamette Valley.

When a vine is at home, it settles in and starts
to transmit. We “hear” those transmissions
as flavors.  - Terry Theise