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For the first time, Violet Vines submitted wines for formal review by James Suckling’s team in March 2023.  We submitted three of our 2021 estate Pinot Noir’s and below are the results. 2021 Violet Vines Origin Block Pinot Noir, 91 pts. Pretty nose of lavender, thyme, wild strawberries, currants and orange zest. It’s fresh with…

Violet Vines is pleased to announce the opening of its tasting room in Carlton, Oregon on May 20, 2023. Located at 203 West Main Street, visitors can experience curated tasting flights, wine by the glass selections and bottle service, all in our completely renovated tasting room five days a week.  We also have extended hours…

As Violet Vines has grown from just shy of three acres under vine to thirty acres in the McMinnville AVA and Milton-Freewater Ava (the Rocks District), we’ve received dozens of questions from our wine club members as well as others that visit us to sample our wines. The two most common questions we’ve received are:…

Back in 2018, as April and I envisioned what we wanted Violet Vines to be, we explored (I think over wine in a local tasting room) what we wanted our future company’s values to be.  We thought it would be essential to not only attract and retain the right people to work with us, but…

Did you know that ultraviolet is a spectrum of light that makes up roughly 10% of the electromagnetic output from the sun and is invisible to the human eye?  Despite being invisible to us, ultraviolet light is constantly interacting with organic molecules.  This duality – and rarity – fits perfectly in the Violet Vines brand…

Our core focus at Violet Vines is to “Excite people about Oregon wine”.  It might sound simple, but the primary way to do this is to deliver a “sense of place”, which in the language of the wine world, is the definition of “terroir”.  As stated in a great article written by Hunter Robillard and…

No visit to the Willamette Valley would be complete without a visit to the red-hot Eola-Amity Hills American Viticultural Area (AVA).  Not only do we live in this AVA, but we are also making our wine at Bjornson as part of a group called the Bjornson Wine Collective.  Because we call those that we make…