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Amalie Robert Estate Climate Update: August 2025
By the time we close out August on the calendar, most all of the heavy lifting is done. Sure, we have a little percussive maintenance on the tractors and implements before harvest (and a new set of tires to mount), but this is nothing new. If Ernie has been easy on the farm equipment all summer, then maybe some of his repairs and maintenance budget might find its way into subsidizing an afternoon Adult Recreational Beverage. Not likely, for the most part, but not impossible either. We drink a little beer and make wine, get to go farming most of the time, in Pinot heaven…
Now is the time we begin the transition from winegrower to winemaker. Different hat, same cattle. As Willamette Valley Pinot Noir winemakers, our primary concern is that we cluster pluck those little wine berries at just the most opportune time to produce the style of wines we want to show in the glass. But The Great Cluster Pluck is a continuum, like space and time. You know what is going to happen, mostly. It is just a question of when, and how much. Farming, in a word.
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Winemaking: The Continuation of Terroir by Other Means®
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“I strongly encourage readers to benefit from the delightfully scripted insights into viticulture and winemaking that form the “climate update” blog on Amalie Robert’s website, charting the entire winery year.”
- David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate
Accolades
"Dena Drews and Ernie Pink have been quietly producing some of Oregon's most elegant and perfumed Pinots since the 2004 vintage. Their 30-acre vineyard outside the town of Dallas, abutting the famed Freedom Hill vineyard where Drews and Pink live, is painstakingly farmed and yields are kept low so production of these wines is limited. Winemaking includes abundant use of whole clusters, which is no doubt responsible for the wines' exotic bouquets and sneaky structure…"
- Josh Raynolds, Vinous, October 2015
Amalie Robert Estate shines in the shadow of Mount Pisgah, written by Michael Alberty, OregonLive, July 18, 2022
Winery spotlight: Amalie Robert Estate, Wine Business Monthly, July 21, 2022
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