About Nicolas-Jay
Nicolas-Jay comes out of a friendship more than thirty years old, between Jean-Nicolas Meo of Burgundy's Domaine Meo-Camuzet and Jay Boberg, the music entrepreneur who co-founded IRS Records. A 2011 visit to the Willamette Valley persuaded Boberg to act on a long-held interest in wine, and he put the idea of an Oregon winery to Meo, who was drawn to the prospect of working a new region after twenty-five years among Burgundy's grands and premiers crus.
The pair spent a long time looking before committing. In 2013 they bought Bishop Creek Vineyard in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA, an organically farmed site of roughly seven hectares planted to mature vines, and it became the estate block. The first vintage followed in 2014, made at Adelsheim and later at Sokol Blosser while the partnership had no winery of its own.
That changed in 2019, when they bought a 53-acre property in the Dundee Hills with some of the deepest Jory soils in the region and set about converting its cattle barn into a gravity-flow winery and tasting room. The first estate vines went in during 2021 and the tasting room opened the same year, built into the hillside with a walkway that lets visitors look down over the production floor as they arrive.
The range is Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, with Chardonnay added in 2017. Alongside the L'Ensemble blend sit single-vineyard Pinot Noirs from Bishop Creek, Nysa, Momtazi and Temperance Hill, and Chardonnay as both an estate wine and the Affinites cuvee. Visits are by appointment, and the house phrase, viens avec nous, is an invitation to come along.
A Burgundy grand cru winemaker and a record executive, in a converted Dundee cattle barn.
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Burgundy meets Oregon,Jean-Nicolas Meo brought experience from Richebourg, Clos de Vougeot and Echezeaux to a Willamette partnership with a former record executive.
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A converted cattle barn,the Dundee Hills estate winery was built inside an existing barn, with a walkway above the production floor.
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Organic estate fruit,Bishop Creek in Yamhill-Carlton, bought in 2013, is farmed organically and anchors the range.
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Named vineyards,single-vineyard Pinot Noirs from Bishop Creek, Nysa, Momtazi and Temperance Hill alongside the L'Ensemble blend.
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Deep Jory soils,the 53-acre Dundee Hills estate sits on some of the deepest Jory volcanic soil in the region, planted from 2021.
"A Burgundy grand cru winemaker and a record executive, in a converted Dundee cattle barn."
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Founding Estate Tasting
Daily tasting at one of the Willamette Valley's founding family estates (1971), Bryan Creek Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley blend, and Chardonnay from David and Ginny Nicolas-Jay's Dundee Hills estate with picnic grounds and Newberg valley views. 50+ years of Oregon wine community building.
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