3655 Liberty Rd S Salem, 97302 503-798-4001 Office 503-585-0446 Fax

For Sale 217.23 Acres Twin Hills, South Liberty Road Salem, Oregon

217.23 Acres Twin Hills Liberty Road S, Salem Oregon 97302 Panoramic View of Ankeny Wildlife Refuge

Located 4 miles south of Salem, Oregon

*3 Tax Parcels of 56.64 acres, 80.80 acres and 80.51 acres. *Total Acreage 217.23 acres *Liberty Road Access to property for ease of development and enjoyment. * 2 New Water Wells producing 27 gallons, 60 gallons per minute, drilled in October 2007

2-Incredible Hilltop Location. Location- Location- Location.

Visible property from I-5. Easy access for commuters. Views, wildlife, Lake, seasonal creek, barn and serene peace. Ideal for many crops including Vineyard Grapes, Berries. Filberts and other trees, etc. This location would be wonderful for an equestrian horse ranch. Great location, 50 min’s to Portland or Eugene and 5 min’s to Salem. Great investment parcel. ... Lovely Oaks & other trees dot the landscape.

Incredible hilltop location. Once in a Lifetime Opportunity. Breathtaking Views of the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge, Willamette Valley Vineyards and the Cascades on this 217 Acres of Privacy. The subject property is the Twin Hills and surrounding acreage. Listing office has Aerial Photo, Topo Maps and Soil Maps for the subject property.

Asking Price $1,550,000

Broker Contact Broker Contact Greg E Gysin, Principal Broker Judy Gysin Principal Broker Gysin Realty Group LLC Gysin Realty Group LLC 3655 Liberty Rd S 3655 Liberty Road S Salem, Oregon 97302 Salem, Oregon 97302 Cell 503-559-9600 Cell 503-910-8619 Office 503-585-1970 Office 503-585-1970 [email protected] [email protected]

Call today for your private viewing of the 217.23 acres. Very seldom does a parcel with this much potential and size come to the market for sale.

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“The main reason Oregon and the Willamette Valley are a fine viticulture area is global positioning. We sit on the western edge of a large continent at a temperate latitude,” said “Kevin Chambers”, co-owner of Resonance Vineyard. “I believe climate trumps soils, and it’s our climate first and foremost. But our soils are also rather unique and complex. They range from some of the deepest alluvial deposits on Earth, to eroded basalts, uplifted seabed sediments (some with submarine volcanic intrusions), and wind-blown loess.”

Over the years, designations have been established for six sub-appellations in the northern part of the valley, which contains 60 percent of the current acreage planted to vines in the Willamette Valley.

The soil diversity is just one — albeit an important one — of a handful of complicated factors in an equation that results in making the wines from each regions distinct. While climate and topography also play major roles in the character of the wine, the soils and parent materials are crucial factors in what makes the Willamette Valley so unique and perfectly suited for .

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The views are exquisite and include a view of Ankeny Wildlife Refuge, Willamette Valley Vineyards, Cascades and Costal Range. The gentle slopes of this property will allow for a view that is beyond imaginable. Plentiful wildlife abound over this property including deer and plentiful upland game birds.

Aerial Photo of all 3 parcels totaling 217.23 Parcel R36114 – 80.51 acres Parcel R36115 – 80.08 acres Parcel R36116 – 56.64 acres

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Access to subject property is easily obtained being that Liberty Road S follows the east edge of the property. This property has a gated entry and dirt road access. Follow the meandering road to the top of either of the Twin Hills for the extraordinary views. Property has a gentle sloping nature for wonderful drainage.

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The Willamette series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in silty glaciolacustrine deposits. They are on broad valley terraces and have slopes of 0 to 20 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 45 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 52 degrees F.

The soils on this property consists of the following spectacular Willamette Valley soils.

Nekia Silty Clay Loam

The Nekia series consist of moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in residuum and colluvium from basalt and tuffaceous materials. These soils are on foothills and have slopes of 2 to 60 percent. The average annual precipitation is 45 inches and the average annual temperature is 53 degrees F.

Jory Silty Clay Loam

High in clay content and iron, Jory is reddish in color and nutrient-rich. "You could grow anything in volcanic soil," Anderson says. "It is lush." It holds water well; smash it between your fingers and it will stick together.

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In November 2007 the owners of the Twin Hills had multiple sites checked for peculation for waste water. Also at this time two substantial producing wells were established on the Twin Hills property. Contact Greg Gysin or Judy Gysin for Well Logs and any additional information regarding this property

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ABOUT THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY

Adelsheim Ribbon Springs Vineyard by Kent Derek Studio

The Willamette Valley, Oregon’s leading wine region, has two-thirds of the state’s wineries and vineyards and is home to more than 300 wineries. It is recognized as one of the premier Pinot noir producing areas in the world.

The Willamette Valley is a huge and varied appellation that includes six sub-appellations: , Dundee Hills, Eola-Amity Hills, McMinnville, Ribbon Ridge and Yamhill-Carlton.

Buffered from Pacific storms on the west by the Coast Range, the valley follows the north to south for more than a hundred miles from the Columbia River near Portland to

8 just south of Eugene. To the east, the Cascade Range draws the boundary between the Willamette Valley’s misty, cool climate and the drier, more extreme climate of eastern Oregon.

At its widest point, this long, broad valley spans sixty miles. Overall, the climate boasts a long, gentle growing season – warm summers with cool evenings; bursts of Indian summer into fall; mild winters followed by long springs. In ideal years the maritime climate provides the best conditions possible for growing the cool-climate grape variety for which Oregon is best known: Pinot noir. In lesser years, fall weather can be tricky, causing winemakers to pull their hair. In this matter the Willamette Valley compares favorably with the Burgundy and Alsace regions of France. And, like it or not, the often finicky Willamette Valley climate is the promised land for Pinot noir in America. Wineries also produce , , , Riesling, Melon, Gewürztraminer, sparkling wine, Sauvignon Blanc and some Syrah, Cabernet, and Merlot among other lesser-known varieties.

The Willamette Valley wineries are a popular tourist destination, with the area boasting a luxury destination resort, several high-end inns and many delightful bed & breakfasts. The valley also offers a long list of fine dining restaurants. An additional advantage for the wine tourist is the proximity of the wineries to Portland. From Portland, tourists can visit the Willamette Valley winery of their choice in anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours.

WILLAMETTE VALLEY AVAs

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 distinctively 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 microclimates.

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, Eola-Amity Hills, McMinnville, Ribbon Ridge, and Yamhill-Carlton.

Chehalem Mountains EST. 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 Parrott 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 9 growing hillsides. It is the geography and climate that differentiate this AVA from others. All three important hillside soil types are represented: basaltic, ocean sedimentary and loess (blown lake bed sediment), the predominant soil on the northern face of the Chehalem Mountains. Within the almost 70,000 acres of this AVA are over 1,600 acres of grapes, grown in over 100 vineyards, and 31 wineries.

Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers Dundee Hills EST. 2005

The first grapes in the Willamette Valley were planted in the Dundee Hills. It remains the most densely planted locale in the valley and state. Within the 12,500 acres of this almost exclusively basaltic landmass that runs north-south and overlooks the Willamette River to the south and the Chehalem Valley to the north, more than 1,700 acres of grapes are planted in approximately 50 vineyards. It is approximately 30 miles to the southwest of Portland and 40 miles east of the Pacific Ocean, with protection from the ocean climate provided by the higher Coast Range of mountains.

Dundee Hills Winegrowers Eola-Amity Hills EST. 2006

Adjacent to the Willamette River, these hills are composed of the Eola Hills, straddling the 45th parallel on the southern end and the Amity Hills on the northern spur, constituting almost 40,000 acres on which more than 1,300 acres of grapes are planted. Two of the predominant influences on the characteristics of wines from the Eola Hills are shallow soils and the Van Duzer corridor. The soils of the Eola Hills contain predominantly volcanic basalt from ancient lava flows, combined with marine sedimentary rocks and/or alluvial deposits, making a generally much shallower and rockier set of well-drained soils which produce small grapes with great concentration. The Van Duzer corridor provides a break in the Coast Range that allows cool ocean winds to flow, dropping temperatures dramatically (especially during late summer afternoons), which helps to keep acids firm.

Eola-Amity Hills AVA McMinnville EST. 2005

The McMinnville AVA of nearly 40,500 acres sits due west of Yamhill County’s seat, the city of McMinnville. It extends approximately 20 miles south-southwest toward the mouth of the Van Duzer corridor, Oregon’s lowest coast range pass to the Pacific Ocean. Encompassing the land above 200 feet and below 1,000 feet in elevation on the east and southeast slopes of these foothills of the coast-range mountains, the soils are primarily uplifted marine sedimentary loams and silts, with alluvial overlays and a base of uplifting basalt. The soils are uniquely shallow for winegrowing. The planted slopes sit in the protecting weather shadow of the Coast Range mountains, and rainfall is lower than on sites to the east. The primarily east- and south-facing sites take advantage of the drying winds from the Van Duzer corridor. Approximately 600 acres are currently planted here.

McMinnville AVA Winegrowers 10

Ribbon Ridge EST. 2005

Ribbon Ridge is a very regular spur of ocean sediment uplift off the northwest end of the Chehalem Mountains, containing a relatively uniform 5 1/4 square miles (3,350 acres) of land. Approximately 500 acres are currently planted on the ridge, within 20 vineyards. The AVA is distinguished by uniform, unique ocean sedimentary soils and a geography that is protected climatically by the larger landmasses surrounding it. Paucity of aquifers forces most vineyards to be dry farmed. Ribbon Ridge is contained within the larger Chehalem Mountains AVA. Willamette Valley EST. 1983

Concentrated grapegrowing in Oregon began here, with initial plantings in 1966 and ongoing vineyard growth in the intervening forty years adding over 10,000 acres, largely because of the benign but challenging cool climate and the protection of mountains on eastern and western boundaries—and, also largely because of one grape variety, Pinot noir. A large AVA of 3,438,000 acres (5372 square miles), running from Portland in the north to Eugene in the south, it includes rich alluvial soils on the valley floor, that are great for agriculture but inappropriate for high quality grapegrowing, and a selection of volcanic, loess and sedimentary soils on hillsides of varying mesoclimates.

To acknowledge the uniqueness of certain smaller growing hillsides inside the valley, AVA designation was requested for six areas in the northern valley, which contain sixty per-cent of the currently planted acreage of the Willamette Valley. All these new AVAs have minimum elevations around 200 feet; some also have a maximum of 1000 feet. Yamhill-Carlton EST. 2005

North of McMinnville, the foothills of the Coast Range create an AVA of nearly 60,000 acres, centered around the hamlets of Carlton and Yamhill. Low ridges surround the two communities in a horseshoe shape, with the North Yamhill River coursing through nurseries, grain fields, orchards and more than 1,200 acres of vineyard. This pastoral northwest corner of Oregon’s Willamette Valley provides a unique set of growing conditions. The Coast Range to the west soars to nearly 3,500 feet (1,200m) establishing a rain shadow over the entire district. Additional protection is afforded by the Chehalem Mountains to the north and the Dundee Hills to the east. Importantly, the coarse-grained, ancient marine sediments native to the area are some of the oldest soils in the valley. These soils drain quickly, establishing a natural deficit-irrigation effect.

Yamhill-Carlton AVA

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Willamette Valley facts & figures

NASS Oregon Vineyard and Winery Report published 2011

Total geographic area

Between Oregon's Cascade Mountains and the Coast Range, more than 100 miles long and spanning 60 miles at its widest point. 3,438,000 acres. Major cities & populations

Portland: 609,456 Salem: 160,614 Eugene: 159,190

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Corvallis: 55,298 McMinnville: 33,131 Distance to the Pacific Ocean

50 miles (McMinnville to Lincoln City) Total number of:

Vineyard acres planted: 17,237 Vineyards: 647 Wineries: 440 First Pinot noir planting

David Lett, , 1965 Major soils

Marine Sedimentary: Willakenzie Volcanic (Basalt): Jory, Nekkia Windblown Loess (Silts): Laurelwood Willamette Valley % of Oregon production

72% of planted vineyard acreage 78% of wine production 87% of Pinot noir production

**Data from the 2013 Oregon Vineyard & Winery Census Report, Southern Oregon University **”Domaine Drouhin Oregon by Serge Chapuis”

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