05/14/2026
A new varietal and story for us: The 2024 Columbia Gorge Nebbiolo.
Why Nebbiolo?
1️⃣ My dad and I loved the varietal from Piedmont, Italy, and bemoaned that the Willamette Valley is not generally warm enough to grow it.
2️⃣ Thanks to my friend, Anna, of , we found a vineyard- our first and likely last outside of the - with a legacy that is deeply personal to me. This vineyard on the Oregon side of the is on land once stewarded by a pioneering isei (first-generation Japanese American) farmer, entrepreneur, and community leader who helped shape agriculture in Oregon. Not surprisingly, he was imprisoned during World War II and his land taken. I thought it would be poetic justice for me, a yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese American), to make wine from this same land. In an act of fate, a new block of had just been planted when I reached out to the vineyard manager.
More will follow, but this is the first release that has been four years in the making.
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