STOLLER FAMILY ESTATE, Dundee Hills
The Stoller family established the property in 1943 as a turkey farm. A vineyard followed 50 years later when Bill Stoller - already a partner in the esteemed Chehalem Winery - planted 20 acres of Chardonnay & Pinot Noir under the tutelage of Burgundian winemaker Patrice Rion. Today, it is the largest contiguous vineyard in Oregon’s Dundee Hills. Their wines are 100% estate grown, and Stoller Vineyard is a highly-regarded source of fruit for several other top Oregon wineries. The 399 acre estate includes 210 acres of vineyard at elevations from 220 - 640 feet.
The family controls every step of the winemaking process, from pruning to bottling and everything in between. Winemaker Melissa Burr, a Willamette native, joined Stoller in 2003. The result is award-winning wines that are balanced, complex, and consistently exceptional. Much has changed from the original farm, but one thing remains constant: a pioneering spirit. Stoller winery was one of the first in in the world to receive LEED Gold certification for being sustainably built and environmentally friendly. Stoller is also a certified B Corp, and ‘Salmon Safe’.
Two-thirds of the vineyard is planted to Pinot Noir (something like 19 different clones!), and most of the rest is Chardonnay. However, there are also small blocks of Riesling, Tempranillo, and other (mostly) aromatic varieties. The vineyards and winery are both certified LIVE sustainable (low input viticulture and enology). Harvest and winemaking are meticulously controlled – fruit is hand-harvested into small bins, hand-sorted, and every vineyard block is fermented separately in the gravity-flow winery.
The winery webiste has a cool interactive map of their vineyards.
