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Cristom Estate Vineyards
September 26, 2019
Accolades, News, Oregon

Forbes: The Best Red Wines for Fall Under $100

By Lauren Mowry Here in the Northeast, the first wave of leaves has fluttered to the ground. Driving past a forest, I spied the golden tinge of fall pushing through the foliage and my thoughts turned to wines for the cooler season and a change in diet. I look for wines with warmth, spice even, but that are still fresh and fragrant with edge and bite. For that I turn to reds like Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo and always, Pinot Noir. Jordan, Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley, California 2014 ($59) The Jordan family suspected Alexander Valley in Sonoma would make great Cabernet Sauvignon long before the rest of the world gained such wisdom. Their first vintage was 1976; ever since, the family has focused on two wines: a Bordeaux-style Cab and Chardonnay. John Jordan, who helms the winery today, does justice to the winery’s 40-year legacy with this excellent 2014. Left Bank-ish with its plum, pencil shavings...

by chavens@cascadiafinewines.com
Cristom Estate Vineyards
June 15, 2019
News, Oregon

Cristom Vineyards Announces the Addition of Daniel Estrin as Vineyard Manager & Co-Winemaker

Cristom Vineyards, one of the leading producers of Pinot Noir in the United States, is pleased to announce the hiring of Daniel Estrin as Vineyard Manager and Co-Winemaker. Estrin comes to Cristom from Littorai Wines in Sonoma County where he served as Associate Winemaker for the last 7 years. He joins a long-tenured Cristom winemaking team which includes winegrower-proprietor Tom Gerrie, and winemaker Steve Doerner. Estrin’s first day at Cristom will be July 15th. Steve Doerner has been Cristom’s winemaker for 27 years, beginning with the brand’s founding in 1992, following a 14-year tenure as the first winemaker at Calera Wine Company in California’s Central Coast. Steve’s 41-year winemaking career began under the guidance of such Pinot Noir legends as Calera’s Josh Jensen and Jacques Seysses of Domaine Dujac. Over the years, Steve has tailored a very precise cellar approach for making wine from Cristom’s unique Estate Vineyards, one that is heavily laden...

by chavens@cascadiafinewines.com
Van Duzer Corridor AVA
January 22, 2019
News, Oregon

Van Duzer Corridor AVA Approval Shows Location Matters in Oregon

New AVA and new online profile by the Oregon Wine Board and the Willamette Valley Wineries Association honor uniqueness of the state’s winegrowing landscape Oregon wine lovers now have 19 reasons to celebrate Oregon’s acclaimed viticultural bio-regions. Now with the Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) having approved the Van Duzer Corridor as an official AVA, or American Viticultural Area, Oregon has 19 winemaking regions—second only to California—with sufficient distinct features to be declared their own unique areas. The Van Duzer Corridor AVA and 18 others are showcased on the Oregon Wine Board’s trade site, each paying homage to their distinctive characteristics, and the Van Duzer Corridor has joined the Willamette Valley’s other six embedded AVAs listed on the Willamette Valley Wineries Association (WVWA) site. Now that the federal government has approved the AVA, on January 14 bottles with “Van Duzer Corridor AVA” may be printed on labels from the AVA’s seven wineries nested within the Willamette...

by chavens@cascadiafinewines.com
November 7, 2018
Accolades, News, Oregon

Meet Oregon’s French Winemakers

These pioneering expats have ventured to Oregon and are showing the world why this state is called the Burgundy of the Pacific Northwest.By Paul Gregutt | Posted November 7, 2018To some degree, the diversity and excellence of Oregon wines makes comparisons to Old World styles irrelevant. But those factors should not undercut the influence French-born and trained winemakers have had on the state’s success.Along with the pioneering Drouhin family, which enters its fourth decade making Oregon wine, a number of more recent arrivals have put their winemaking expertise to work in the state, which remains one of America’s leading producers of Pinot Noir.These French winemakers praise Oregon’s welcoming winemaking community and open horizons. Moreover, they seem to have a lot of fun as they revel in the palpable sense of freedom that the state’s wineries enjoy.Perhaps it’s simply the break from the constraints of tradition, but the biggest reward to leave home, and...

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Larry Stone & Thomas Savre
September 30, 2018
Accolades, Oregon

Lingua Franca makes Wine & Spirits Top 100 List

We're pleased to announce Lingua Franca's well-earned place on Wine & Spirits Top 100 list this year, with Lingua Franca Bunker Hill and Avni Chardonnay making the year’s best Top Chardonnay list. In addition, the winery was also recently featured as one of the Wine Spectator's Rising Stars in Oregon. Earlier this month, the winery released the last two wines of the year for wholesale: Hope Well Pinot Noir 2016 and The Plow Pinot Noir 2016.The Plow has already received a 94-point score from Tim Fish of the Wine Spectator. Hope Well is a Dijon-clone PN667 expression of Mimi Casteel’s vineyard which also produces our Mimi’s Mind Pinots. It is more nuanced and delicate than The Plow, which comes primarily from Elton, the neighboring vineyard, among the oldest in the region....

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Wine & Spirits Top 50 Wine's In America's Best Restaurants
September 7, 2018
Accolades, Oregon

Cristom’s 2015 Mt. Jefferson Cuvée is the “No. 1 Pinot Noir on the wine lists of the best restaurants in America.” by Wine & Spirits Magazine

The dining room at Bâtard in Tribeca was full at noon on a recent Tuesday, when the restaurant is usually closed. The yellow walls looked brighter than at night, when they contrast less with the raised pattern of branches in a paler shade, more the color of limestone in a vineyard in Puligny. Comte Louis Michel Liger-Belair, who farms a domaine centered on La Romanée in Vosne, was in town to present a project in Oregon, one he had helped found five years ago. Liger-Belair described the first wine—a blend of fruit from snaking ribbons of vines, selected to follow the edge of lava flows at different vineyards in the Eola–Amity Hills, the Chehalem Mountains and the coast range—alongside a wine from an estate vineyard, Black Walnut, in Dundee. Both wines were savory, with more mineral than fruit flavor in the tannins, though the Dundee Hills wine was fuller, richer, more...

by chavens@cascadiafinewines.com