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From John, May 4th, 2016Oregon Live, February 2022: Cameron Winery’s pinot-dipped arrow targeted ‘screaming egos’
Oregon Live, December 2021: The Gift of Dundee’s Cameron Winery.
Eco18 Collectively Green: May 2019: Heard it through the grapevine: Celebrating eco-friendly wineries in the US
Chambers Street Wines, August 2016: Cameron Winery: Oregon’s Prince of Pinot
Modern Farmer, December, 2015:
The Benefits of Dry-Farming Wine — For the Palate and the Planet
Portland Monthly, September, 2015:
One Winemaker’s Answer to the Drought: Stop Watering
Oregon Wine Press, May, 2015:
End of the Clones – Chardonnay Symposium focuses on site selection
Innovation and Inspiration from California
The secret of great Burgundies is the amazing diversity of characteristics, carefully selected by many generations of French winemakers. Over the years, this treasure trove of diversity was brought to California by visionaries such as Paul Masson and Ernest Wente. In 1979, I began my winemaking career at Carneros Creek Winery in the Napa Valley. Here I was introduced to the great wines of Burgundy as well as a 1/2 acre plot of Pinot noir clones from many of the best known Pinot noir vineyards in California. Realizing the amazing bequest that was sitting in front me, I intended then and there to make this a pursuit of my lifetime.
There’s More... >2019, A Treasured Vintage
Every so often a vintage comes along which is so special that it is not to be missed. 2019 was one of those years!
There’s More... >Silent Fall
One of our fall rituals has traditionally been battling songbirds, who arrive in the vineyard en masse in October to feast on our newly ripened grapes. But climate change and catastrophes in our environment have started to take their toll on our feathered friends. This year there was no need for bird deterrents, large migrations of robins and cedar waxwings over our vineyard seem to have disappeared.
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