Our Story

Denis Burger and Elaine McCall were looking for a piece of property to plant grapes on and learn about winegrowing from the ground up.  On a wet, August weekend in 1982 they opened up the classified section of the newspaper and spotted an ad that read “Land For Sale, Good For Grapes,” and they were off.  The rain continued all the way until they turned off Highway 18 onto Oldsville Road.  As they turned the corner approaching the property, a rainbow appeared over the hillside in front of them.  The rain stopped.  They had arrived.  The site was not where they had been looking for land previously and was much larger than what was needed for their original plan, but as they explored what would become their new patch of Yamhill county, they fell in love with the views, the hillsides, the little stream with its wildflowers on its bank, and they began making plans for a vineyard.

Slowly they acquired adjacent parcels of land, planting vineyards where there had been rolling fields of hay and wheat, and planning for a winery.  They experimented with varietals, clones, and rootstocks, made plans for heirloom fruit orchards, and asparagus fields. They wanted to use as much of their land as possible. They began planting in 1983, constructed the winery and warehouse buildings in 1985, and opened the Tasting Room in the spring of 1986.  

Today our estate is 150 acres with 100 acres planted to vine, and a small heirloom apple orchard. We make exclusively estate grown wines and remain family owned and operated.