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Gran Moraine

The company, the site, the style written by Erika Mantovan Gran Moraine is a California-based operation working in Oregon, whose ultimate owner is none other than Jackson Family Wines, the Santa Rosa group founded by Jess Jackson, who in 1974 bought an eighty-acre orchard in Northern California and in 1982 launched the first Kendall-Jackson Vintner’s Reserve Chardonnay. Today it is the ninth-largest wine producer in the United States, with forty

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Ponzi Vineyards

As the climate shifts and old vines adapt, Maison Bollinger bets on an Oregon identity still waiting to be discovered written by Erika Mantovan There is a before and an after Bollinger’s acquisition of Ponzi Vineyards. And for anyone wondering whether the Champagne house plans to make sparkling wine in Oregon, the answer during our visit was a “no”: that was never the intention from the start. The aim of

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