Pinot Country

regionDundee Hills

Pinot Noir grapes at Archery Summit in the Willamette Valley wine region of Dundee Hills
Pinot Noir grapes at Archery Summit in the Willamette Valley wine region of Dundee Hills — Luke, CC BY-SA 2.0

A single hill of red volcanic Jory soil north-west of Dundee, and the ground Oregon pinot noir started on in 1965.

Written down by US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (2004)

Facts

countryUnited States
levelsub-ava
established2004
soilJory — basalt-derived red clay loam
regionWillamette Valley, Oregon
where45.2800, -123.0500 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Numbers somebody published

AVA area · 20046940 acres — Dundee Hills AVA
Planted · 20041300 acres — Dundee Hills AVA

Nothing in this table is estimated here. Where a figure is missing it is missing, and the row is not written.

Near here

Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.

Its kin

regionWillamette ValleyThe valley AVA this sits inside.and of this page it says: The red Jory hills where Oregon pinot started.cellarThe Eyrie VineyardsWhose South Block vines are the oldest pinot here.and of this page it says: The hill his first block sits on.cellarDomaine Drouhin OregonBuilt high on the same hill in 1987.and of this page it says: The hill it sits high on.cellarSokol BlosserPlanting since 1971, two ridges over.and of this page it says: The AVA its blocks sit in.

Sources

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