04/04/2024
All About Oregon: Spotlight on Domaine Serene 🔦
Grace and Ken Evenstad first arrived and settled in the Dundee Hills in the Willamette Valley in 1989 at a time before the real craze of Oregon Pinot Noir had properly started. When the time came to pursue their longtime dream of growing and producing world-class Pinot Noir, they invested in a 42-acre hilltop estate that had just been logged in the beautiful Dundee Hills of Oregon.
They named the w**ery after their daughter, Serene, and their first vineyard on the estate was named after their son, Mark Bradford Evenstad. Today, Domaine Serene produces w**es from six individual vineyard estates, planted exclusively to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Each estate offers a diversity of soils, clones, rootstocks, microclimates, slopes and elevations that add distinguishing complexity and elegance to the w**es.
Dundee Hills AVA 🗺️
The Dundee Hills AVA was created in November 2004 – the soil here is almost exclusively with weathered, basalt and runs north to south from the Chehalem Valley to the north and the Willamette River to the south. It is one of the smallest but also one of the most prestigious AVAs of the Willamette Valley with around 900ha of vines planted.
Award Winning 🏆️
Since the first vintage in 1990, Domaine Serene has produced award-winning w**es, including Evenstad Reserve Pinot Noir, recognized as the World’s #3 W**e of 2013 by W**e Spectator Magazine. In addition, the 2012 W**ery Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir was named the Top Pinot Noir in the World by Decanter magazine in 2016.
Interested in learning more about Oregon as a w**emaking region? Click the link in our bio.
Oregon Campaign | Bordeaux Index Fine W**e & Spirits- https://bordeauxindex.com/oregon
📸 Grace and Ken Evenstad in the w**ery
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