Colene Clemens
Colene Clemens says, Saluud!
Their standard tasting fee is $20 per person, which they happily waive with a $75 purchase per person, or enrollment in their wine club.
When you arrive, check in with them, to be seated. Let them know, that the reservation name is, "My Chauffeur Wine Tours".
We should be leaving here by 4:15, to be at our next location by 4:30.
Remember to take care of your tasting fee, and/or wine purchase, by that time.
Again. We should be leaving here by 4:15, to be at our next location by 4:30.
Remember to take care of your tasting fee, and/or wine purchase, by that time.
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Located where the Chehalem Mountains A-V-A, converge with, Ribbon Ridge A-V-A, their 122 acre property was acquired in 2005. The rocky, south-facing hillside, is composed of marine sedimentary and volcanic basalt soils.
Let me know if you want to learn more about the Chehalem Mountains and Ribbon Ridge A-V-A, or the marine sedimentary and volcanic basalt soils.
Completely dry-farmed, their 62-acre vineyard produces wines that are, pure expressions, of each vintage.
Their wine maker, Oregon newcomer Stephen Goff, is quickly earning respect from his well-established neighbors. Rich and concentrated, with flavors of dark Bing cherry, and smoke, his wines reveal the vintage charms, and shows off Goff’s pedigree—he was an assistant winemaker at Beaux Frères from 2001 to 2006.
Joe Stark, and wife Vicki, own Colene Clemens Vineyards and Winery, which they named in honor of Vicki's mother, grew up in Gaston, and Portland respectively.
It took many years of searching for the perfect place to pursue their dream.
So, after an encounter with some Jesters and flute players, they were ready to set up shop in the "underbelly" of the Willamette Valley--- the Ribbon Ridge A-V-A!!!
There was only one dilemma, neither of them had ever made wine before!
So they left for the sunny Portland suburb of Dundee, Oregon, where they met up with some wine making masters, and learned about wine, and wine making from the ground up. These grisly old wine masters knew how to do it, and were hardly agreeable to hand over their secrets at first.
But the charisma and tolerable looks of the Starks, in time, won over the wine making masters, and the secrets, were revealed to them.
Then, they found a very old abandoned farmstead, and orchard that had lain fallow for many years. That would be that place, they said. The perfect place to make perfect Pino.
Possessing ideal aspect (south facing), elevations (350 to 650 feet), and an array of high quality, proven Pino Noir soils, not to mention fantastic views, no place could have been better.
They learned a lot: like when to spit, about barrel tasting, and the proper handling of the Pino glass.
Also the intricacies of a Pino Noir, and when and when not to use such phrases as, 'Hedonistic and round, characteristically developed', when referring to the wine.
And countless other tricks of the trade, were now in the brains, hands, and notepad, of Joe and Vicki.
They say, they look forward to many years in pursuit of the, "perfect", Pino noir - that illusory, if unattainable, holy grail of wine making.
Saluud!
Colene Clemens Vineyards
Colene Clemens says, Saluud!
Their standard tasting fee is $20 per person, which they happily waive with a $75 purchase per person, or enrollment in their wine club.
When you arrive, check in with them, to be seated. Let them know, that the reservation name is, "My Chauffeur Wine Tours".
We should be leaving here by 4:15, to be at our next location by 4:30.
Remember to take care of your tasting fee, and/or wine purchase, by that time.
Again. We should be leaving here by 4:15, to be at our next location by 4:30.
Remember to take care of your tasting fee, and/or wine purchase, by that time.
PAUSE
PAUSE
PAUSE
Located where the Chehalem Mountains A-V-A, converge with, Ribbon Ridge A-V-A, their 122 acre property was acquired in 2005. The rocky, south-facing hillside, is composed of marine sedimentary and volcanic basalt soils.
Let me know if you want to learn more about the Chehalem Mountains and Ribbon Ridge A-V-A, or the marine sedimentary and volcanic basalt soils.
Completely dry-farmed, their 62-acre vineyard produces wines that are, pure expressions, of each vintage.
Their wine maker, Oregon newcomer Stephen Goff, is quickly earning respect from his well-established neighbors. Rich and concentrated, with flavors of dark Bing cherry, and smoke, his wines reveal the vintage charms, and shows off Goff’s pedigree—he was an assistant winemaker at Beaux Frères from 2001 to 2006.
Joe Stark, and wife Vicki, own Colene Clemens Vineyards and Winery, which they named in honor of Vicki's mother, grew up in Gaston, and Portland respectively.
It took many years of searching for the perfect place to pursue their dream.
So, after an encounter with some Jesters and flute players, they were ready to set up shop in the "underbelly" of the Willamette Valley--- the Ribbon Ridge A-V-A!!!
There was only one dilemma, neither of them had ever made wine before!
So they left for the sunny Portland suburb of Dundee, Oregon, where they met up with some wine making masters, and learned about wine, and wine making from the ground up. These grisly old wine masters knew how to do it, and were hardly agreeable to hand over their secrets at first.
But the charisma and tolerable looks of the Starks, in time, won over the wine making masters, and the secrets, were revealed to them.
Then, they found a very old abandoned farmstead, and orchard that had lain fallow for many years. That would be that place, they said. The perfect place to make perfect Pino.
Possessing ideal aspect (south facing), elevations (350 to 650 feet), and an array of high quality, proven Pino Noir soils, not to mention fantastic views, no place could have been better.
They learned a lot: like when to spit, about barrel tasting, and the proper handling of the Pino glass.
Also the intricacies of a Pino Noir, and when and when not to use such phrases as, 'Hedonistic and round, characteristically developed', when referring to the wine.
And countless other tricks of the trade, were now in the brains, hands, and notepad, of Joe and Vicki.
They say, they look forward to many years in pursuit of the, "perfect", Pino noir - that illusory, if unattainable, holy grail of wine making.
Saluud!
Colene Clemens Vineyards