The Eyrie Vineyards

The Eyrie Vineyards

Infobox Winery
winery_name = The Eyrie Vineyards
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location_city = McMinnville, Oregon
location_country = USA
appellation = Willamette Valley AVA
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year_founded =1966
first_vintage =1970
key_people = David Lett
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signature_wine = Pinot noir
varietal1 = Pinot gris
varietal2 = Pinot blanc
varietal3 = Pinot Meunier
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homepage=http://www.eyrievineyards.com
distribution= USA, Canada, England, Japan, Korea
tasting= open to public

The Eyrie Vineyards is an American winery in Oregon that consists of 49 acres in several different vineyards in the Willamette Valley. The vineyards and winery were established by owner and winemaker David Lett, who produced the first Pinot gris in the United States. Against the advice of viticultural professors at the University of California, Davis, Lett and his wife, Diana, moved to Oregon to plant Pinot noir in 1965. They founded Eyrie Vineyards in 1966, and their first vintage was 1970.

The 1975 Eyrie Vineyards Reserve Pinot Noir won tenth place among Pinot noirs in blind tasting at the Wine Olympics in 1979.

Burgundy winemaker Robert Drouhin organized a re-match at Maison Joseph Drouhin in France. The 1975 Eyrie Vineyards Reserve won second place, losing to Drouhin's 1959 Chambolle-Musigny by only two tenths of a point. Drouhin later purchased land in Oregon and built Domaine Drouhin Oregon.

Over the years, David Lett (known locally as "Papa Pinot") has maintained a light-handed style of Pinot noir that has not followed the trend toward greater flavor, tannin, and color extraction. This has put him at odds with some of the wine critics. David Lett died on October 9, 2008.

The Eyrie Vineyards estate vineyards are part of the sub-American Viticultural Area (AVA) of Willamette Valley AVA known as the Dundee Hills. The winery itself is in McMinnville, which annually hosts the International Pinot Noir Celebration on the last weekend in July on the campus of Linfield College.

ee also

*List of Oregon wineries and vineyards

References

*cite news | url=http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/katherine_cole/index.ssf?/base/living/12146037259530.xml&coll=7 | title='Papa Pinot' looks back over 40 years of Oregon winemaking | author=Katherine Cole | date=2008-07-01 | publisher=Oregon Live LLC | work=The Oregonian
*cite news | url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/369129_winepick02.html | title=Wine Pick Of The Week: 2006 The Eyrie Vineyards Oregon Pinot Gris ($18) | author=Richard Kinssies | publisher=Hearst Newspapers | work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date=2008-07-01
*cite web | url=http://www.eyrievineyards.com/journal/?page_id=4 | title=About the Eyrie Vineyards | publisher=Eyrie Vineyards | work=Eyrie Vineyards Official Website | accessdate=2008-07-30

External links

* [http://www.eyrievineyards.com The Eyrie Vineyards] (official website)


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