Durant Vineyard
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted duck, wild mushroom risotto, grilled salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from one of the Dundee Hills' most historic sites, the Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir showcases the legendary terroir of Oregon's pioneering wine region. First planted in 1973 by the Durant family, this vineyard is defined by its volcanic Jory soils, high elevation, and cooling marine breezes. Owen Roe's interpretation of this premier site emphasizes minimal intervention, utilizing small-batch fermentations and careful aging in French oak to preserve the vineyard's signature bright red fruit profile, elegant earthy undertones, and refined structural complexity.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1999 by David and Angelica O'Reilly, Owen Roe is named in honor of the 17th-century Irish patriot Owen Roe O'Neill. Operating across the Pacific Northwest, the winery bridges Washington’s Yakima Valley and Oregon’s Willamette Valley, celebrating cool-climate microclimates, diverse volcanic and windblown loess soils, and dry, high-sunlight ripening conditions. Following a brief period under corporate ownership, the O'Reilly family repurchased the estate in 2024 to reassert their founding independent vision. The viticultural and cellar philosophy prioritizes rigorous low-yield vineyard management, hand harvesting, small-lot fermentations, and judicious use of French oak barrel aging to preserve varietal clarity and site-specific typicity. Sourcing from benchmark terroirs such as Red Willow and DuBrul, Owen Roe produces critically acclaimed single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Chardonnay alongside value-driven cuvées under their Sharecropper’s and Corvidae labels, delivering structured, cellar-worthy expressions marked by vibrant acidity and deep concentration.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
13.0%-14.0%