Notes from Dacha Wines:

"Rosé is here and it is snappy! Light with very bright strawberry fruit, it is once again 100% pinot noir from Lewisburg vineyard just north of Corvallis, pressed directly and fermented in a combination of neutral wood and steel.

Throughout Eastern Europe, Dacha means ‘summer house.’ Practically, dachas are an escape from the city: small simple cottages with a yard for growing vegetables to pickle. Culturally, the dacha takes on a semi-mythic quality. It is a space outside time that is both creative and close to nature, built with a view out to the natural world’s weird tension between beauty and brutality. If people live in the city, they dwell in the dacha.

Winemaker Isabel Newlin currently farms four different vineyards of 1-3 acres, from Yoncalla in the south to Aurora in the north. Each vineyard has its associated dacha (that is, someone lives there) and she works closely with the owners to care for the vines and surrounding ecosystem. The acreage— about 8 acres of vines—is a scale at which she feels that she can really pay attention. Throughout the year she handles each vine many times, and her relationship with the plants is quite personal. The wines are a continuation of the conversation that she's having with the vineyard, and Newlin hopes that they are able to express some of this dialogue, each season and over many years."