Introducing Vincent Wine Company
Low input wines of the Willamette Valley
VINCENT WINE COMPANY
Vincent Wine Company is a Willamette Valley winery making Oregon Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Gamay and even red wine from Pinot Gris.
Owner/winemaker Vincent Fritzsche launched the winery in 2009 after years of apprenticing in wineries in Oregon and California.
They are all about low-input wine making, working with several sustainably-farmed vineyards around the Willamette Valley to produce small amounts of handmade wine without a lot of fuss.
About the Name
Vincent Wine Company is named for many things. It is Vincent’s name, of course. It was also the name of his uncle and maternal grandfather.
But, really, the name pays homage to the 4th century Saint Vincent of Saragossa, Spain, the patron saint of vintners.
He was adopted centuries ago by the Burgundians who tend the same grape varieties as Vincent in the Willamette Valley.
Each year on or around January 22, they celebrate his feast day with the legendary Fête de la Saint Vincent.
VINCENT WINES
2022 Pinot Blanc
rom the famous Zenith vineyard, this Pinot Blanc is awash with vinous orchard fruit and crisp, appetizing acidity ready when you are for scallops, crab, lobster – and any other fatty shellfish that are tricky to pair. Vincent leases a .65 acre plot of Pinot Blanc from the 1990s growing on Zenith vineyard owned by Tim & Kari Ramey, located on Zena Road in the heart of the Eola-Amity Hills.
2022 Pinot Gris “Red” Willamette Valley
This special, skin contact bottling of Pinot Gris is what Wil Bailey describes as a “chillable red” coming from old vine Pinot Gris of the Dion vineyard in the silty loess soils of the Laurelwood District AVA of the Chehalem Mountains. It’s owned by Kevin Johnson and Beth Klingner. Vincent works with their own-rooted Pinot Gris vines planted in 1988. Natty but not at all feral, this wine is something else. Served blind one would think this is Pinot Noir with the full expression and quality of the noble Pinot Gris grape.
2022 Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills
A blend of vineyards around the Eola-Amity Hills to give a food friendly wine for everyday enjoyment. Clocking in at 12.5%, this is a superb choice for your next dinner party. Made from fruit off Temperance, Zenith, and Cortell-Rose where Pommard and Willakenzie clones are concentrated by these volcanic soils, this Pinot Noir is handsome, fragrant and textured and allowed to express both the varietal expression and these pedigreed vineyards thanks to aging in barrels averaging five years old.
2022 Ribbon Ridge Pinot Noir
A selection of Pinot Noir barrels from the marine soils of the Ribbon Ridge, the warmest AVA in the Willamette known for bigger, spicier, bolder wines. This is charming and balanced despite all its riper character and toned flex. From the sedimentary marine soils of Armstrong vineyard owned by Doug and Michele Ackerman, the Pinot Noir does really well on this old seafloor that’s sandy and drains exceptionally well, giving a lovely chalky, even worsted wool texture to the red wines. A Pinot Noir that is fulsome and rich but not at all brawny or heavy handed. A bold Pinot Noir that retains finesse.
The estate holdings are in Savennières, from where Florent produces several great bottlings; Coteaux du Layon, from where several long-lived and intense sweet wines are made, including Quarts de Chaume; and various other areas from which some outstanding Crémant de Loire is produced, and a very small amount of red wine, a Cabernet based Anjou. Also worth noting, with the 2005 vintage Baumard began bottling 100% of their production (excepting Crémant) with Stelvin closures, becoming one of the pioneers of this technology in France.
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