White Rose Estate
Dayton, Willamette Valley · Dundee Hills AVA
About the winery
Located in the heart of Oregon’s Dundee Hills AVA, White Rose Estate is dedicated to growing and producing artisanal Pinot noir that exhibits classic variety character and above all, conveys a sense of beauty. Since 2001, annual production has increased from a couple hundred cases to approximately 4,000 cases per year of Pinot noir which comes not only from our 14-acres of estate vineyards, but also a number of other premier vineyards in the northern Willamette Valley. Our philosophy is a modern adaptation of traditional whole cluster winemaking practices and focuses on higher elevation vineyards in the coolest growing areas of the Willamette Valley. This approach has fostered a style of evocative wines that are expressive, complex and classically elegant. The ultimate goal is to produce wines that respect classic variety character; convey a sense of beauty; illuminate emerging details of the wine over the course of its lifespan; and potentially take you on an emotional journey.
What makes it different
- White Rose Estate uses a proprietary Segmented Press Fraction technique, extracting wine at three distinct times during fermentation and aging each fraction separately before blending.(from the winery)
- White Rose Estate's winemaking/operations lead previously worked at Linne Calodo, Erbaluna in La Morra, Paul Hobbs Wines, and Viña Cobos in Argentina.(from the winery)
- White Rose Estate's founder Greg Sanders left a career in aerospace manufacturing, studied viticulture and enology at UC Davis, and purchased the vineyard in 2000 to found the winery in 2001.(from the winery)
