When Carlo and Rosa Marchesi
arrived in New York City from their tiny village in Northern Italy, they
realized that they’d have to make do. Not ones to be deterred by
more concrete than they’d ever seen in their lives, they gamely
planted grapevines in their back yard, fruit trees in the front, and
crammed their tiny cellar with neat rows of barrels, bottles, and
preserves.
Fifty years later, their grandson Rudy broke ground on his first
commercial vineyard, some 100 miles from the Bronx but not all that far
from Carlo and Rosa’s vision of the good life. Rudy raised his
two daughters and his little winery through the 1980’s and
90’s, with everyone working together to bring in the harvest,
pile up hoses, and tote boxes of wine for nice tourists from New York
(after homework was done, of course).
Today, Rudy and his youngest daughter Kristin are the core managing team at
Montinore Estate. Together, they are committed to making sustainably
farmed, carefully crafted, wines for sale in Oregon and
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At Montinore, we appreciate
that the health and vitality of our wines, our workers, and our
community are connected to the vitality of our vineyards. Not only
that, but we believe in our hearts that sustainable,
site-specific agriculture yields the finest wines with the most
distinctive character possible. |
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Our farming practices reflect these
ethics. We cultivate our vineyards according to the strict standards of
biodynamic farming. This means that instead of applying chemical
pesticides and herbicides, you might find us spraying chamomile or
diluted milk on our grapes, Yep, sounds crazy, but it consistently
produces some of the best fruit we’ve tasted. And to make sure
our vines have the richest, healthiest soil possible, we interplant
them with nitrogen rich cover crops and return our skins, seeds, and
clippings to the soil each spring as compost. |
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Montinore Vineyards Limited
3663 SW DIlley Road - PO Box 490 - Forest Grove, OR 97116
(503) 359-5012 or (888) 359-5012 phone - (503) 357-4313 fax
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