Discovering Future Wines, on Can Wine Save the Planet?

Discovering the Wines of Montinore Estate

Day 4 of our 12 Days of Wine Celebration!

These vineyards are farming the soil, creating healthy environments with biodynamic and regenerative methods. This generates biodiversity, sequesters carbon, and, in turn, makes delicious wine.Wines for the Future.

These are wineries and vineyards that are doing the work, in their own way, to be sure we have a long, healthy future on our planet in which to enjoy wine!

Grab a glass and celebrate with us!

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Montinore Estate & Rudy Marchesi

Rudy Marchesi is the driving force behind Montinore Estate and has been in the Wine Industry for over 40 years. While working in wine distribution, he came across Montinore and began consulting with the vineyard in 1998. In 2005, he became the proprietor.

A love for the land and an appreciation for wine were instilled in Rudy early on by his Italian Grandparents, who had a farm and vineyard in Northern Italy. You’ll see that in addition to the traditional Pinot Noir grown in the Willamette Valley, Rudy also had Teraldego and Lagrein planted in the vineyards.

Rudy came to biodynamics through the wines he had been selling as a distributor. He always found that these were the wines he liked best and as a grower, one of the most important things is to grow and make wines that people will like!

Warm and thoughtful as you speak with him, Rudy believes in this type of farming and set forth to mentor and lead, sharing his knowledge.

Oregon’s Willamette Valley in the Tualatin Hills and Yamhill-Carlton AVAs

The Montinore Estate vineyards are in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.  Montinore was named a combination of  “Montana and Oregon” by its original owner, John Forbis, a lawyer from Montana.  The original Montinore Estate is located in Forest Grove in the Tualatin Hills AVA.