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Feature Article
Remy Wines focuses on Italian varietals in an AVA best known for Pinot Noir. Does Remy Drabkin know something we don't?
Willamette Valley: It's Not Just
for Pinot Noir Anymore
By not making Pinot Noir, and in the face of climate change, winemaker Remy Drabkin may become the new face of Oregon.
by
Alan Goldfarb
August 4, 2008
f Oregon was in Burgundy, 27-year-old Remy Drabkin might either be exiled to Valpolicello as Dante Aleghieri had been, or at least be ostracized for her contrarian behavior. Ensconced in a world of Pinot Noir in the Willamette Valley, where the variety is grown, produced, nurtured, and lionized for giving the region its raison d’être, the young winemaker will soon be making about 12,000 bottles – and conspicuously and consciously - none of it is Pinot Noir.
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