Eola-Amity Hills AVA
Chehalem Mountains AVA | Dundee Hills AVA | Eola-Amity Hills AVA | McMinnville AVA |
Ribbon Ridge AVA | Van Duzer Corridor AVA | Willamette Valley AVA | Yamhill-Carlton AVA
About
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-Amity Hills are shallow soils and the Van Duzer Corridor.
The soils of the Eola-Amity 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 Wineries
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Quick Facts
Established: 2006 Wineries: 33
Tasting Rooms: 26
Vineyards: 125
Total Area: 39,045 acres
Planted Area: 3,059 acres
Most common grape varieties: Pinot noir (79.83%), Chardonnay (8.29%), Pinot gris (3.32%)
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2nd round Dolcetto came in today. Some pressed into the eggs for Rosé and some destemmed for amphora Novello
Hello friend! 👋🏼💜 Excited to check in on our juicy purple wild child from the south (Eola-Amity Hills AVA) tonight! Our La Chenaie Vineyard Pinot Noir has zippy acid backed by a lush and textured purple fruit explosion! 🌈🦄 Our most challenging kid in the fermenter, she always stands out and blossoms into one of our favorite wines in the end!
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🤓: One thing we LOVE about making Pinot Noir here in the Willamette Valley is that Pinot is so reflective of the specific spot that the grapes are grown. The Willamette Valley - with all its soil types, dramatic terrain, micro climates, and cool weather coming in from the Oregon Coast - is a perfect place to grow and make Pinot Noir with truly unique character. That’s why you’ll find so many single vineyard Pinot Noirs from the WV... like complex people from different backgrounds and upbringings, each Pinot is different from the other with its own individual personality. They can be complicated yet beautiful, and that’s why we love them!✌🏼
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Today we made our own IPNC wine education tasting at Walter Scott. To say the tasting was amazing is simply an understatement. Erica shared so much information on the wines and their history, it truly felt like we were doing IPNC!
This was one heck of an amazing dream team today.
2020 Bois-Moi Rosé
2019 Rock Salt Chardonnay
2019 Cuvée Anne Chardonnay
2019 Freedom Hill Chardonnay
2019 Seven Springs Chardonnay
2019 Freedom Hill Pinot Noir
2019 Sequitur Pinot Noir
2019 X-Novo Pinot Noir
2019 Sojeau Pinot Noir
Personal favorites today were the Freedom Hill Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
#oregon #walterscottwines #walterscott #winelover #winelovers #willamettevalleywine #willamettevalleywines #willamettevalleywinecountry #eolaamityhills #eolaamityhillsava #freedomhillvineyard #chardonnay #chardonnaylover #pinotnoir #pinotnoirlover #friendshipgoals #friends #ipnc2021
The cooler weather calls for more soups! We're commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month with a family recipe: the Maldonado Family Posole. Pair it with our 2016 Zenith Pinot noir, and you're set for a cozy night in. 🍷🥣⠀
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Use the link in our bio to shop our Selecciones de Personal packs, and download the recipe!
💫Good morning Monday! I just realized it has been awhile since my last post. This past week has been non-stop getting my online shop ready for the holidays thedolcehunter.shop I have already started to list some great holiday gift items (check out my stories and stay tuned for more!)⠀
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🍷At this point, and I say at this point, nothing definitive, I am not selling wine yet.. but if I were to, you all know what my main focus would be: ⠀
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WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINES!⠀
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🍷This past weekend we opened a 2018 Evesham Wood Pinot Noir, Eola-Amity Hills Cuvée. Beautiful, soft, elegant and a classic Oregon Pinot Noir. eveshamwood Since 1986, Evesham Wood has been producing award-winning wines. They produce the classic big 4 up here in Oregon, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer. One of my favs from them is their Blanc du Puits Sec. ⠀
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📍Evesham Wood is located in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA, which is in the Salem, Oregon area our state capital (lucky for me, only an hour away!) ⠀
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‼️Since we are going into a mandated statewide two week lockdown starting this Wednesday, now is the time to really support our Oregon wineries and order your holiday wine gifts directly from them. Here is a list of wineries from this AVA to checkout for your holiday wine gift ordering:⠀
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▪️Evesham Wood eveshamwood⠀
▪️Cristom Vineyards cristomwine⠀
▪️Willamette Valley Vineyards willamettevalleyvineyards⠀
▪️Brooks Winery brookswinery⠀
▪️Bethel Heights Vineyards bethelheightsvineyard⠀
▪️Grochau Cellars grochau_cellars⠀
▪️Evening Land Vineyards evening_land⠀
▪️Bjornson Vineyard bjornsonvineyard⠀
▪️Lingua Franca Wines linguafrancawines⠀
▪️Methven Family Vineyards methven_family_vineyards⠀
▪️St. Innocent Winery stinnocentwine⠀
▪️Failla Wines faillawinesoregon
▪️Walter Scott Wines walterscottwines⠀
▪️Bryn Mawr Vineyards brynmawrvineyards⠀
▪️Drouhin Oregon Roserock roserockoregon⠀
▪️Lumos Wine lumoswine⠀
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🥂And there are so many more! So sorry I can’t list them all but this is a great start for you!⠀
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👇Have you tried any of these wines on this list and if so, which ones?👇⠀
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Have a fabulous week and please please wear your masks! ⠀
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💕Hayley #thedolcehunter
We hosted a private lunch on top of Temperance Hill Vineyard yesterday. The views were spectacular!
Catering provided by ohorizonprovisions
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One of two new AVA series Pinot's from Ken Wright Cellars, this inaugural release 2019 Eola-Amity AVA Pinot Noir is just wonderful! Inspired by the geological events that influenced the soils. The Eola-Amity AVA is volcanic soil with characteristics of red & blue fruits, lower pH, higher acidity, less tannic with earthy notes. kwcellars --
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#Repost linguafrancawines
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We're thrilled to announce that we'll begin welcoming guests back at our state-of-the-art winery in the Eola-Amity Hills for private, seated tasting experiences beginning Saturday, March 20th.
Let us take you through our critically-acclaimed wines and share the stories that inspired Larry, Master Sommelier, to plant our special 66-acre vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills and to partner with two Burgundian masters of the art of winemaking, Thomas and Dominique Lafon, to create Lingua Franca.
Join us Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 11 am, 1 pm, or 3 pm.
Availability is limited and we expect to fill up quickly — click on the link in our bio to make a reservation today!
#linguafrancawines #willamettevalleywine #pinotnoir #chardonnay #eolaamityhills #eolaamityhillsava #oregonwine #oregonwinecountry #winecountry #drinkoregon #winetasting #joinus
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Wine Country Thanksgiving Event
PENNER-ASH WINE CELLARS
@pennerashpinot
We invite you to celebrate the holiday season with us in our beautiful and festive tasting room. Cozy up fireside with friends and family and enjoy a tasting of our world-class Pinot Noirs. Dante Zapata will provide live music from 12pm-4pm, Friday & Saturday. 📍 15771 NE Ribbon Ridge Road, Newberg #dundeehillsava #eolaamityhillsava #mcminnvilleava #yamhillcarltonava
📞 503-554-5545
🎟️ Tasting Fee $25 per person, waived with a minimum purchase in wine
📆 Hours: Friday (11/29) - Sunday (12/1), 11am-5pm
🍁 Event Categories: Live Entertainment
A Vintner's Life for Me 🍽️ Charcuterie, wine and beer on the menu all harvest long.
For anyone who dreams of winemaking as a glamorous side gig, we invite you to join Cyler any night this week until 1am to clean, pick, clean, stomp, clean, shovel, clean, press, clean, punch, clean, measure, clean. On repeat 🔁
#wvharvest2021 #harvest2021 #winemaker #varnumsbuyavineyard #winemaking #harvest #charcuterie #wineandfood #wine #oregonwine #wvwines #smallproductionwines #eolaamityhillsava #diy wvwines eolaamityhillsava
Coming to you live from the Willamette Valley, starting our journey at Lingua Franca winery in the Eola-Amity Hills. Lingua Franca, meaning “universal language”, is the project of Master Sommelier Larry Stone and winemaker Thomas Savre. Tasting through this lineup, the word that kept coming mind was “tension”, balancing at the razor’s edge: they were uplifting yet subtle, fresh yet complex, bright yet deep. The Pinots are laced with lots of lovely red fruits and spices and brambly herbs, true to the character of the valley. Of the Pinots, I am most enjoying the 2017s; whereas the 18s are muscular, the 17s are pretty. Savre, who hails from Burgundy (the spiritual homeland of Pinot) purportedly commented “2017 tastes like home”—silky, elegant, beautiful.
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We have three cases of our 2019 Auxerrois & 20 bottles of the 2017 Reserve Chardonnay left in our tasting room ✨
These special wines never last long so make your reservation to come taste them today before they sell out! 🌞🍷
Tempranillo picked on this fresh, beautiful morning. Thanks to the vineyard crew zenithvineyard for leaving me a little sumthin’ sumthin’ for breakfast 🍇😋👌🏼 #breakfastofchampions #parrawineco #latinowinebrand #eolaamityhillsava #wvcommunity #temptedbytempranillo #willamettevalley #latinoownedbusiness #zenithvineyard #latinxwine #teenytinywineriesoforegon #oregontempranillo #harvest2021 #alittlesumthinsumthin
If anyone needs a wine model, I'm here to help. Skills include: drinking wine and not looking at the camera.
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Sunsets & Chardonnay - It doesn't get much better than this!
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#springdays #sunset #sunsetandchardonnay #eolaamityhillsava #eolaamityhills #wvwines #roserockvineyard #drinkdrouhin #domainedrouhin
We’re almost sold out of our 2017 Roserock Zéphirine. Nick Stock, writing for JamesSuckling.com, gave the wine an extraordinary 96 points, calling it "deceptively elegant and convincingly excellent pinot noir." This stunning wine will soon be gone, so now is a good time to grab a few more bottles! #linkinbio
Eola-Amity hills is an incredibly diverse AVA in Oregon that produces some the most delicious Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the state/country/(world debatably?). These two exemplary wines from lumoswine and walterscottwines represent some of the finest work being done there. It’s hard to pick when there are so many great producers. What do you guys think? Big fans of Oregon wines? Any favorite producers from Eola-Amity or elsewhere in the valley/state? Think we’re all living in a plane on fire that’s rapidly yet not-quickly-enough rocketing towards the Mariana Trench where we’ll crash and have no escape or hope of being found? Comment below!
🇮🇸 We are thrilled to invite you to August the Deuce, our annual celebration of our Icelandic heritage with wine, fine art, food and music! 🇮🇸
The twist? It’s #augustthedeuce…in July!
Join us July 31st as we bring this storied celebration to the #WillametteValley.
Your ticket includes a wine tasting, a fine art stroll admiring the works of 17 local Oregon artists from tenoaksgallery, live music (but of course!), and ends with a light meal from #LousticCatering. Tickets are $30/person, with limited quantities available. Be sure to RSVP today before tickets are sold out! We're confident they’ll go quickly.
So, get to it, book away!
Don't delay! Not even for a day!!
Reserve your spot today via www.bjornsonwine.com (link in profile). Instructions are in the comments below!
Some glowing fields and showers went great with a shift glass after another busy Saturday. Hope the wind doesn't take the chairs again!
#brynmawrvineyards #eolaamityhillsava #eolaamityhills #oregonwine #oregon #willamettevalley #wvwines #gowinetasting #goldenhour #sunset #rain #showers #deck #salemismopo
Wow, what a treat to try these gems today! A friend and fan from Texas brought Ken two perfectly cellared Pinots from Ken’s 1994 vintage; a 1994 Carter Vineyard Pinot Noir from eolaamityhillsava and a 1994 Abbey Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir, now known as Guadalupe Vineyard.
Over 26 years in bottle and both these wines are showing incredible! A true testament to the ageability of Willamette Valley Pinot noir.
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‘You can do it.’
tipsi_gypsy on the petite dig out. 3 more barrels.
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First morning pick at Cortell Rose for sunbreakwc … beautiful sunrise over Mt Hood. This Wadenswil will be made into a white Pinot. A little more time needed before we starting picking for Pinot noir. #vitisterra #vtvs #grapeharvest #sunrise #mthood #willamettevalleywine #eolaamityhillsava #vineyardmanagement
Hawaii Style!! Gammy looking the part with her amazing luau night! Little Moffett Riesling was perfect!
#luautheme #moffettvineyards #oregonpinotnoir #willamettevalley #dundeehills #eolaamityhills #yamhillcarltonava #rosèofpinotnoir #rosèallday #terrarossavineyard #biezevineyard #monksgatevineyard #oregonchardonnay #pinotnoir #chardonnay #dundeehillsava #eolaamityhillsava #yamhillcarltonava #privatetastings #mallirisvineyard #chehalemmountainsava #tastinginthevineyard #aligote #riesling #wineclubs
With summer bottling complete, got out to see some vineyards. Excited to see flowering blowing up in most of our sites and with the predicted weather pattern, we have hope for a successful set! Fingers crossed.
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Obligatory bud break photos. Lucy and I got out for a quick look yesterday. Things are POPPING! Spring 2021 feeling really nice. dpeseau photo cred for first pic. #spring
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Vineyard visit with Tom and Kate from Division Wine Co. divisionwineco They get Gamay noir from Jubilee Vineyard near Amity. #amityoregon #eolaamityhillsava #divisionwineco #gamaynoir #oregongamay
Hangin with these critters at Carlile’s Crest Vineyard. The post harvest cleanup crew. #carlilescrestvineyard #eolaamityhillsava #eolaamityhills #oregonchardonnay #kunekunepigs #vineyarddogs
Here we are looking at the flower buds on the rachis (stem) of what will be the grape cluster later on. This cluster has had a long life as it started forming in the dormant bud last year along with the shoot primordia. Across the valley, We already lost a lot of primary buds containing the clusters to the frost event back in April. Now we really need Junuary to be over it to escape this “June gloom” into June bloom! We need some sunny days to have good fruitset in grapes. Why? Not because grapes are pollinated by honey bees….. grapes are self pollinated. Native grapes can have the male flower parts on different flowers but grapes that have been domesticated for thousands of years are dioecious meaning each flower contains both male and female parts (see diagram- the stigma is the female part and the stamen with pollen grains is the male part. So back to the question of why we need some warm days….. the male pollen lands on the stigma and grows a pollen tube info the stigma to fertilize the ovules (after fertilization these form seeds). How fast the pollen tube grows is a time temperature dependent process so it needs warm temperatures to complete the process of fertilization. Once the ovule is fertilized, a seed produces hormones to start the process of rapid growth for that grape berry. If the seeds don’t get fertilized the flowers or small grapes will abort. Typiically, in the Willamette Valley for Pinot noir, we see 30-50 percent fruitset meaning on about half of the flowers actually turned into berries. Other crops, such as blueberries pollinated by honeybees can have around 80 percent fruitset. The numbers of berries that are fertilized in the cluster will be the major factor determine size and ultimately yield. So crossing my fingers for some sunny days ahead! 🌞🌞🌞🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🌞🌞🌞 vitis.terra #vtvs #vitisterra #winegrowing eolaamityhillsava #eolaamityhillsava #eolaamityhills #oregonpinotnoir #oregonchardonnay #flowerpollination #grapeflowers #vineyardmanagement #bloom #oregonwine
We had an incredible evening with our club members last night! Special thank you to nicksitaliancafe for cooking a spectacular four course meal!
Cheers to our club members who were able to attend. It was great to see so many of you after a year of no events. While Ken emphasized this last night, we want to thank you one more time for your support and love of Ken Wright Cellars!
More special thank yous to the talented singer joannaleemusic for serenading the evening and to msbarry1 for the beautiful flowers handpicked from her own garden.
