Spring Winery Events

We have two winery events happening this spring.

First is April 27, 11am-4pm drop in tasting at our facility at 9360 SE Eola Hills Road. We’re calling it Between the Hills. Come taste with us and we’ll give you a card that can get you free tastings this same afternoon at neighbors Varnum Vintners and David Paige Wines. Both are terrific local producers and will be offering discounts on bottle purchases, and we will too. Come on out.

Then May 18 1-4pm we’re having a Winery Open House at 9360 SE Eola Hills Road. We’ll be pouring lots of new wines and an old wine or two, and offering a screaming deal on our 2022 Rose (think half off). Must be there in person to get it, don’t miss out.

New Wines for Spring

We’ve finished our annual Spring Prerelease offer to our mailing list, but now the spring wines are available to the general public. Here are the highlights:

2022 Pinot Blanc WV Tardive $35 – a special cuvee of our regular Pinot Blanc, just aged longer on the lees (18 months) for additional development. From a small parcel at the great Zenith Vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA. Very limited.

2022 Chardonnay WV Tardive $35 – as with the Blanc Tardive, this wine aged 18 months in barrel on lees for textural and aromatic development. We like this Tardive or “later” bottling so much with Chardonnay, we don’t do the regular bottling anymore!

2023 Rose $25 – our first wine from the most recent vintage, this wine is mostly direct pressed Pinot Gris with some Pinot Noir and Gamay for color, clean and refreshing.

2022 Gamay $30 – traditional open top fermentation, like our Pinot Noirs, with lots of whole clusters in the vats. Juicy, bright with berry fruits and peppery spice, we think its benchmark Oregon Gamay but let us know what you think.

2022 Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills $35 – our cuvee of Pinot Noir barrels from our home appellation is back after a small crop in 2021. This wine comes from Zenith and Temperance Hill vineyards, with bright zesty raspberry fruit and Pinot spice.

2022 Tempranillo Upper Five Vineyard $40 – our first wine from the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon, biodynamically farmed for over 20 years, made in the traditional style to show warm dark fruits, tobacco leaf and fine tannic structure. Our first wine in a Bordeaux style bottle. Very limited.

To order these wine, as well as everything showing on our Buy Wine page, simply email us with your selections and we’ll follow up as soon as we can with details.

Spring Prerelease Offer is Open

If you’re not on the Vincent mailing list, definitely join today. Links abound on this site to email us and join.

Everyone on the email list received the alert today that our annual Spring Prerelease Offer is now open. That means you get our best pricing on soon to be released new wines coming this spring.

Orders at special prerelease pricing must be in by March 8, but it’s first come, first served so don’t delay if you want to make absolutely sure you don’t miss out on anything.

Wines in the new offer…join the list for pricing and all the details:

2022 Pinot Blanc Tardive – our longer lees aged special cuvee of Pinot Blanc, dry, fresh and crisp

2022 Chardonnay Tardive – our similarly longer aged Chardonnay, bottled later for additional complexity and depth

2023 Rose – our pale, dry Rose of mostly Pinot Gris – the first wine of 2023!

2022 Gamay – Willamette Valley Gamay is not Beaujolais, but this one could definitely fit in around the Beaujolais-family dinner table

2022 Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills – crisp raspberries and delicate herbs, a classic expression of Eola

2022 Tempranillo Upper Five Vineyard – our first Tempranillo under the Vincent label, in a Bordeaux bottle to echo the depth and structure of this savory, rich red wine

Because we don’t have any other new release Pinot Noirs, and you all seem to enjoy our Pinots, we’re also offering special pricing on four currently available wines:

2022 Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge – shows the gentle sunshine of Ribbon Ridge, more cherry and tea spice compared to the Eola-Amity’s raspberry and herbs

2021 Pinot Noir Armstrong Vineyard – our top Ribbon Ridge site, a powerful but subtle Pinot Noir from the heralded 2021 vintage

2021 Pinot Noir Zenith Vineyard – one of our Eola- Amity sites, more blackberry and wood spice with a lovely, soft woolen texture

2021 Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard – another of our Eola sites, high elevation, red volcanic soils, so earthy and red fruited, you might swear there’s whole cluster here but no, that’s the complexity of Temperance

Remember – orders must be in by March 8 for our special early pricing. Join the Vincent mailing list today. Never any obligations to buy. We appreciate your interest.

January at the winery

Our cellar filled with barrels of last year’s wine, quiet for the winter

Winter is understandably the quietest time of the year in the wine business. Holiday madness is over. Restaurants often close for a bit in January. Everyone’s going to the gym or trying, and good on all of us for that!

So what IS happening?

Winter pruning is beginning in the vineyards. You don’t want start too early because, as gardeners know, cutting plants can encourage new growth. It’s far too soon for that!

Yet all the pruning has to get done before spring, so strategies are often to get to the colder sites first – they aren’t as prone to respond as much. And then hold off on the warmer sites until later, sometimes pruning can go into March with the hope of pushing off the earliest chance of budbreak.

The goal – to have the vines “bud out” come April and, we hope, make it through mid May when frost danger will have passed.

We work with several vineyards and each has its strategy. But if you’re ever wondering why vineyards aren’t pruned early and otherwise left with all of last year’s growth like a kid needing a haircut, now you know.

In the winery, we’re planning our upcoming bottling for all of our 2022 single vineyard Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays from the Willamette Valley, plus a new Tempranillo we’ve begun producing from a wonderful vineyard in southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley – our first adventure making wine from outside the Willamette. Exciting!

More detail on that and everything else we have coming up – do you know about our Napa Cabernet Sauvignon project?? – you should join our mailing list. We’ll have our Spring Prerelease Offer coming on February 1 just for list members. Easy to join, never any obligation to buy but we’ll try our best to tempt you.

Harvest 2023 in the books!

After many weeks of work, we’ve successfully harvested all the grapes for vintage 2023 and almost done filling all the barrels with new wine. What a great feeling to be wrapping up the long work of the harvest season in the Willamette Valley.

Pictured above, Vincent in a fermenter of Gamay grapes from Zenith Vineyard, foot treading the whole-cluster fruit to encourage the start of fermentation. People always ask – do you stomp the grapes Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy? Yes, indeed we do. It’s an effective and gentle way to mix the fruit, it’s not just for show.

News – we have a winery open house for mailing list members on November 18, 1-4pm. Email us for details, and if you’re not on our list and you want to come, email us and we’ll sign you up. Friends are encouraged to join you, we find that’s a great way for us to meet new wine lovers, so thank you.

We’ve updated the Buy Wine page with all the currently available wines as well as some library offerings if you’d like to try some older wines of ours. To order, simply email us and we’ll follow up as soon as we can.

Fall Prerelease Offer is Open

If you’re on our mailing list, you can preorder our upcoming Fall wine releases at special early pricing now.

Here’s the list of wines and the special pricing. However, to order you must join our mailing list. And don’t delay, the list is almost full and we’ll start a secondary list for wines leftover after the main offer.

2022 Pinot Blanc Willamette Valley $30 retail, $25 prerelease special
2021 Chardonnay Royer Vineyard $45 retail, $35 prerelease
2022 Pinot Gris Willamette Valley $30 retail, $25 prerelease
2022 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley $30 retail, $25 prerelease
2022 Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge $35 retail, $30 prerelease
2021 Pinot Noir Zenith Vineyard $50 retail, $40 prerelease
2021 Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard $55 retail, $45 prerelease

Our Fall Prerelease offer expires September 8, order sooner to guarantee your selections.

New Prerelease Offer coming August 7

Just a note to announce that we’ll be sending out our annual Fall Prerelease offer to the mailing list on Monday, August 7. Join the email list to make sure you get the offer.

As usual, we’ll be offering all our wines from our upcoming Fall release at special discounted prerelease pricing. This is your first chance to buy our soon to be released wines at the best pricing we offer.

The highlights of the Fall release are the final single vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the excellent but small 2021 crop. Then we’ll have the first white and red wines from the exciting 2022 vintage, which gave up a bit more quantity in addition to fantastic quality.

We’ll have all the details – including pricing – in the mailer next week. In the meantime, here’s the list of new Fall wines we’ll be releasing. We’ve been low on wines for a little bit after the short crops in 2020 and 2021, so how wonderful to have good quantities on these terrific new wines!

2021 Chardonnay Royer Vineyard
2021 Pinot Noir Zenith Vineyard
2021 Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard

2022 Pinot Blanc Willamette Valley
2022 Pinot Gris Willamette Valley – red wine!
2022 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley
2022 Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge

Summer at the winery

It’s summer and we’re busy at the winery evaluating last year’s wines in barrel, to see what we’ll bottle at the end of summer and what we’ll age longer for further development.

Meanwhile, we’re having a private open house at the winery on Saturday, July 22. Join our mailing list to be able to attend.

We are planning a new prerelease offer on fall wine releases in August, so make sure you’re on the list for that.

Winery tasting Saturday, May 27

We’re having a big tasting event at the winery this Saturday, noon-5pm, with four wineries pouring under one roof. Our facility is the home of GC Wines, and they’re hosting us, Upper Five Vineyard wines from the Rogue Valley, and Red Electric Wines from Armstrong Vineyard, Ribbon Ridge.

Tasting fee is $30 and includes appetizers to sample as you taste. Our address is 9360 SE Eola Hills Road. See you Saturday, noon-5.

New Wines for Spring

After very few releases from the 2020 vintage, we are delighted to release a slew of new Vincent wines from the 2021 vintage, plus the new 2022 Rosé. All feature our new label designs. We hope love them!

These new wines are just now in bottle and labeled and ready for shipping and delivery. We’re working through all our mailing list orders from earlier this year. Thanks to everyone on the list who bought at special prerelease pricing.

But…we still have some new wines available. To order, email Vincent your picks and we’ll follow up with all the details.

New wines for spring:

2021 Pinot Blanc Willamette Valley $30
2021 Chardonnay Willamette Valley “Tardive” $35
2022 Rosé Willamette Valley $25
2021 Gamay Willamette Valley $30
2021 Pinot Noir Armstrong Vineyard $50

Check the Buy Wine page for the full list of currently available wines.