Our Story
Most vineyards begin with a grape variety. We began with a place and a question. How can we compose a singular wine experience perfectly suited to this landscape?
When we found this hillside in Yamhill, Oregon, we saw an opportunity to begin our own exploration. The site was unlike any we had encountered: a natural amphitheater ringed by native oak trees, ancient marine soils, and cool afternoon winds carrying the scent of the Pacific. Its varied topography offered complexity at every turn.
Concinnitas, a Latin term, describes a form of beauty that emerges through the harmonious arrangement of all parts into a coherent whole.
We did not come to wine through a single bottle, region, or grape variety.
Instead, we came to wine through discovery. Through travel and history, food and family. Wine became part of, and enhanced, so many of the things we loved.
As a result, we set out to do more than blindly follow convention or simply try to recreate a wine we admired.
The Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti used Concinnitas to describe a form of beauty that emerges when every element exists in proper relationship to every other — when nothing can be added or taken away without diminishing the whole.
That idea became the foundation for everything that followed. The varieties we planted. The layout of the vineyard. The orchard of Spanish cider apples. The hops. The farming. The wines. Each decision was made in relationship to the site and to every other decision — a single fermentation landscape rather than a vineyard alone.
Not to recreate something that exists elsewhere. Not to follow convention for its own sake. But to help this place become the most complete expression of itself.
The result is not a single wine, but a collection of wines connected by a common purpose: depth balanced by freshness, intensity balanced by energy, and a sense of harmony that can only emerge when every element truly belongs.
Everything we do is in pursuit of concinnitas.
