Innocent Thoughts
May 31 2018
We found an ancient seabed below Enchanted Way Vineyard!
Construction crews digging the foundation for our new winery building discovered fossilized clams that are evidence of the ancient seabed that lies beneath our beautiful estate. What, you might ask, does this have to with vines and wines? This is actually a reassuring sign for the types of wines (especially Chardonnay) that Mark wants to create here at our Estate Vineyard in the coming years.
The type of sedimentary soils that we have planted our 15 acres of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay might very well have kinship to the famous region of Chablis...
January 18 2018
Back To Our Roots
January 15, 2018 News Release from St. Innocent Winery St. Innocent Winery has purchased a 47.5 acre property in the South Salem hills at 10052 Enchanted Way SE, Jefferson, OR. We are immersed in designing and constructing a new winery. The production facility will have many of the features of our current facility: gravity reception and bottling, and underground barrel storage built into the hillside. Our Tasting Room will be expanded with more diverse experiences for our customers at an ideal location close to the I-5 corridor. Surrounded by two natural ravines and a two-acre grassy hillside looking at our...
December 20 2017
St. Innocent 2014 Freedom Hill Pinot Noir ranks #83 out of 100 “Top 100 Wines of The World” in 2017!
The 2014 Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir is currently showing a wonderful range of earthy aromatics, which instantly burst through with characteristics of forest floor, black truffle and pine needles along with black cherry and cranberry expressions. On the palate this is both elegant and intense as it possesses wonderful texture and weight, along with rich flavors reminiscent of Mandarin orange rind, red berries and black truffle oil. There is a gorgeous seamless quality to this elegant wine, as it effortlessly glides through to a long, mineral driven finish, laced with red and black fruits. If approaching young, it would...
March 25 2017
Hey Pennsylvania: We’re Now Shipping to Your State!
Forty six states allow wineries to ship their bottles directly to customers; Pennsylvania is the latest addition to this growing list. Last August, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board approved the first direct shipper licenses. We now have one, too!
Add any quanity of bottles 1 to 1,000 (hey, we can dream!) or the WineClub to your cart and we'll ship it to your PA adddress. We also have some limited production wines that are only sold direct to consumer. You can now have those shipped right to your door. Our current example is the 2007 Blanc de blanc Reserv...
