Lancaster Ridge vineyard is located in Oregon's beautiful Willamette Valley. Planted in 1997, at 500 ft elevation, pinot noir and pinot gris thrive in Oregon's cool and mild climate. In true Burgundian style, the vines are 1x1 meter spaced and guyot trellised, making for high quality, low yield berries.

Vintages

2000: My first harvest. It is an amazing thing to see the root stock you planted in the ground turn into a bottle of wine....all by a natural process.

2001: Twice as much production as my first harvest. I was working in New Mexico, however, so the grapes were given to my friend and talented wine maker, Kirk.

2002: Once again, I missed the harvest. China!! Kirk said the grapes came in at only 18 brix, so he is attempting to make a white pinot noir. Oxymoron, I know. Could become a nice, off-dry rose. The pinot gris did great. Beautiful tight clusters, so beautiful that even the raccoons thought so. They devoured it.