Wines From Oregon
Join our newsletterWe make wine that highlights the incredible Oregon wilderness all around us. We believe our simple approach to winemaking yields complexity. Nature has already perfected what we are doing, we are just adding some muddied helping hands. We fell in love with Oregon, because it’s still wild, still green, and nobody blinks when they get … Continue reading About De La Boue Wines
The spring of 2019 was warm and wet, leading to an on-schedule bud break. June cooled off quite a bit and the vines hit the brakes, lowering yields and increasing quality. June was bookended with a warm late summer, but without the presence of any significant heat spikes. The vines and grapes moved along steadily. Veraison in … Continue reading 2019 Harvest
2019 was a wild ride. This was - by all accounts - a cool vintage. I remember tasting through a number of 2007 (another cool vintage) Oregon wines when I was working at a resort in Montana. They were complex, brooding and I wasn’t sure what I was tasting. I dove in and started embracing … Continue reading 2019 Growing Season
In this series we ask members of the wine gang what de la boue, which can only be roughly translated from the French, means to them. Gretchen: "When I think positively of mud it is of muddy calves. Chris and I grew up running and we grew up in New Hampshire and we grew up … Continue reading Muddy Calves: Gretchen
