5 winemakers x 5 vineyards = 25 barrels of great

5 winemakers x 5 vineyards =
25 barrels of great Oregon Pinot Noir.
A true experiment in the
vintner’s hand and the land.
1997 Cellar Crawl was formed when five winemakers and friends chose to
join forces to learn from each other’s successes and failures, share winemaking
secrets, and tackle the challenges together. It started in with a casual trip to
each other’s cellars. A joint marketing trip and then a journey to Burgundy
sealed the friendships.
2006 Recognizing that their winemaking styles were quite different even
after a decade of traveling and tasting together, they started wondering, “What
would happen if we shared our grapes? If we each made wine from the same
five lots of Pinot Noir?” In 2006 they made it happen. The Cellar Crawl
collection is the result of that collaboration.
The winemakers
Terry and Ted Casteel, Bethel Heights Vineyard
Steve Doerner. Cristom Vineyards
Ken Wright, Ken Wright Cellars
Lynn Penner-Ash. Penner-Ash Wine Cellars
Laurent Montalieu. Soléna Cellars
The vineyards
Bethel Heights’ Southeast Block, Eola-Amity Hills AVA
Cristom’s Eileen Vineyard, Eola-Amity Hills AVA
Ken Wright’s Abbott Claim Vineyard, Yamhill-Carlton AVA
Penner-Ash’s Lia Vineyard, Chehalem Mountain AVA
Soléna’s Willakia Vineyard, Eola-Amity Hills AVA
The Cellar Crawl Collection is sold as a set of 5 boxes for $1,250 (not available separately). Each set
includes a technical data sheet on the vineyards and the winemaking for all 25 wines.
The wineries will donate 20% of each sale to the Parkinson Center of Oregon at OHSU, in honor of friend
and fellow winemaker Terry Casteel, who is battling Parkinson’s Disease.