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PORTLAND OUR West Wind Vineyard VINEYARDS Elevation: 475 - 600 ft. Chehalem Soil: Willakenzie Expressing the wild Mountains West Wind Vineyard Yamhill-Carlton AVA An estate vineyard, where District AVA cooling afternoon breezes Ribbon Ridge blow over rolling ancient AVA Holstein Vineyard sea floor VINEYARD Elevation: 750 ft. Shea Vineyard YAMHILL Soil: Jory Haakon Lenai Vineyard Elevation: 450 – 630 ft. An old-vine estate vineyard Soil: Willakenzie marked by towering firs on beauty of Oregon’s NEWBERG a south-facing slope CARLTON Wichmann Vineyard Dundee Hills AVA A small, high-elevation site Wichmann Vineyard DUNDEE loved for its exceptionally SOURCES Elevation: 690 ft. Kropf Family Vineyard balanced fruit Soil: Jory Elevation: 300 ft. DAYTON MCMINNVILLE Soil: Jory Latchkey Vineyard geologic history An estate vineyard, planted Haakon Lenai Vineyard densely on a steep south-facing Elevation: 350 - 700 ft. hillside Soil: Jory Latchkey Vineyard Elevation: 500 ft. Holstein Vineyard Soil: Jory At the peak of the hills, owned McMinnville AVA and farmed by a pioneering vineyard manager Shea Vineyard A cluster of sunny knolls and one of Oregon’s most celebrated vineyards Van Duzer Corridor Freedom Hill Vineyard AVA A family-owned “grand cru” site in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range Eola-Amity Hills AVA Kropf Family Vineyard A boutique, family-owned vineyard on a sun-drenched southeastern slope DALLAS SALEM L L A M E T Freedom Hill Vineyard I T E W Elevation: 300 – 650 ft. EUGENE Soil: Bellpine Loam VALLEY AVA OREGON BLOOD OF THE EARTH lora and fauna come and gone. Seismic events of unbelievable proportion. Ancient oceans, rivers of wine is the perfect interpretive lens for this wild narrative, a sight line into the long, complex story of F lava, and crashing floods. The record of all that came before us lives on as layers of soil and stone, the living landscape around us. Our volcanic sites originated as lava flows coming down the Columbia hillside slopes and sun exposures. Oregon’s Willamette Valley is a world class environment for producing Gorge from Eastern Oregon 15 to 6 million years ago. And our sedimentary sites originated as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay largely because of this geologic history. At Purple Hands, we believe ancient sea beds when Western Oregon was under the Pacific Ocean for 35 million years..

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2019 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
2019 WILLAMETTE VALLEY PINOT NOIR AVERÆN was born out of our love for cool climate Pinot Noir. Oregon’s Willamette Valley offers an ideal growing climate, where strong winds blow from the nearby Pacific Ocean, and the mix of ancient volcanic soils and marine sediments from a prehistoric ocean floor lend intense minerality and complexity to the Pinot Noir grapes grown on them. Simple sustainable farming, hands-off winemaking and a passion for Pinot Noir dictate our mission. Our vineyards span the Willamette’s sub-AVAs, enabling us to create a wine that is a true representation of the Valley as a whole – playing off each site’s specific personality and complementary nature to create a harmonious blend. VINEYARDS CHEHALEM MOUNTAINS AVA Chehalem Mountain Vineyard, La Belle Promenade DUNDEE HILLS AVA Meyer EOLA-AMITY HILLS AVA Valin-Morrissey, Bois Joli, Eola Springs MCMINNVILLE AVA Meredith Mitchell, Still RIBBON RIDGE AVA Flanerie WILLAMETTE VALLEY AVA Holmes Gap, Croft, Satori Springs, Fern Creek, Giving Tree YAMHILL-CARLTON AVA SISU, Deux Vert WINEMAKING VARIETIES 100% Pinot Noir HARVEST September 14th - October 10th FERMENTATION Temperature controlled stainless steel and neutral foudre AGING 10 months in 228L Remond, Damy, Cavin, & Stockinger barrels LABS 13.6% ABV 3.63pH 6.74 TA UPC 853868006413 TASTING NOTES Textbook Willamette Valley Pinot Noir with juicy, fresh fruit and berry flavors - think dark cherry, cranberry, blackberry, more cherry. Black tea, anise, blood orange and vanilla accents abound adding complexity. The texture is ripe and plush with a line of acid running through to keep the wine vibrant. The wine is all about focus, electricity, and verve..
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Willamette Valley Avas, Making Them Well-Drained and Extending Hang Time for Fruit During Final Ripening
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Media Contact: Emily Petterson [email protected] 503-550-8161 WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINE American Viticultural Areas & Soils No grape variety is as reflective of climatic and site differences as Pinot noir. That is why it demands a cool climate to thrive and why small distance differences in the valley often yield wines of distinc- tively different character. General attributes that make the Willamette Valley suitable for cool climate grape growing include the protection afforded by the Cascade Mountains to the east, Coast Range mountains to the west and a series of lower hill chains to the extreme north of the valley. Almost all grape growing is done on lower hillsides, avoiding deeply fertile alluvial soils and cooler hilltop meso- climates. It is on these hillsides that Pinot noir uniqueness is found and where apparent families of wines urge distinctive American Viticultural Area identification. In 2002, a collaborative action of vineyards and wineries delineated and submitted to the TTB petitions to divide much of the northern part of the large Willamette Valley AVA into six more specific AVAs: Chehalem Mountains, Dundee Hills, Eo- la-Amity Hills, McMinnville, Ribbon Ridge, and Yamhill-Carlton. Chehalem Mountains AVA, established 2006 The Chehalem Mountains AVA is a single uplifted landmass southwest of Portland in the northern Willamette Valley, extending 20 miles in length and 5 miles in breadth, stretching from southeast to northwest. It includes several discrete spurs, mountains and ridges, such as Ribbon Ridge and Par- rett Mountain. The highest point within the Willamette Valley is the Chehalem Mountains’ Bald Peak (at 1,633 feet) which affects weather for the AVA and for adjoining grape growing hillsides.
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A Broad Analysis of Vineyard Soils, Grape Juice and Wine Chemistry
Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Spring 6-2-2016 The Terroir of Pinot Noir Wine in the Willamette Valley, Oregon : A Broad Analysis of Vineyard Soils, Grape Juice and Wine Chemistry Kathryn Nora Barnard Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Environmental Sciences Commons, Geology Commons, Soil Science Commons, and the Viticulture and Oenology Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Barnard, Kathryn Nora, "The Terroir of Pinot Noir Wine in the Willamette Valley, Oregon : A Broad Analysis of Vineyard Soils, Grape Juice and Wine Chemistry" (2016). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2941. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2936 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. The Terroir of Pinot Noir Wine in the Willamette Valley, Oregon – A Broad Analysis of Vineyard Soils, Grape Juice and Wine Chemistry by Kathryn Nora Barnard A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences and Resources: Geology Dissertation Committee: Scott F. Burns, Chair Robert B. Perkins Andrew Fountain Martin LaFrenz Teresa Bulman Portland State University 2016 © 2016 Kathryn Nora Barnard Abstract Terroir is determined by a combination of factors in the vineyard including the grape varietal, geology and soil, soil hydrology, physiography, and climate. Although most studies have examined regional differences in wine flavors and associated provenance of wine based on chemistry, few have examined the chemistry of the soil and the ability to trace that chemistry to grape juice and, finally, to the wine.
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TABLE of CONTENTS the HISTORY the PLACE Avas & SOILS CONTACT
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