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Amalie Robert Estate BONUS FEATURE: Yellow Jacket Warfare!
This is the one you have been waiting for. September marks the opening salvo of yellow jacket warfare. Growing wine in Oregon’s Willamette Valley presents unique challenges every vintage. And if nothing else goes awry, then it falls to the agricultural equipment to add some indelible ink to the vintage. And yes, we have those tattoos, but they are on the inside where only we can see them.
But the one thing that is constant is the annual onslaught of yellow jackets as we round the bend into The Great Cluster Pluck. Those blighters are out there. You see a few from time to time during the summer. Maybe even find a nest to spray. But what you do not see are the countless battalions dug into the ground. BroodX has got nothing on the yellow jacket.
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“I strongly encourage readers to benefit from the delightfully scripted insights into viticulture and winemaking that form the “climate update” blog on Amalie Robert’s website, charting the entire winery year.”
- David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate
Accolades
"Dena Drews and Ernie Pink have been quietly producing some of Oregon's most elegant and perfumed Pinots since the 2004 vintage. Their 30-acre vineyard outside the town of Dallas, abutting the famed Freedom Hill vineyard where Drews and Pink live, is painstakingly farmed and yields are kept low so production of these wines is limited. Winemaking includes abundant use of whole clusters, which is no doubt responsible for the wines' exotic bouquets and sneaky structure…"
- Josh Raynolds, Vinous, October 2015
Amalie Robert Estate shines in the shadow of Mount Pisgah, written by Michael Alberty, OregonLive, July 18, 2022
Winery spotlight: Amalie Robert Estate, Wine Business Monthly, July 21, 2022
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