About Ponzi Vineyards
Dick and Nancy Ponzi planted their vines in 1970, making Ponzi one of Willamette wine's founding families, and the succession became the story: daughters Luisa, the acclaimed longtime winemaker, and Maria, the president, ran the house for decades as Oregon's model of second-generation excellence, before Champagne Bollinger's family company acquired the estate in 2021, its first venture outside France.
The Laurelwood District estate, an AVA the Ponzis championed, produces silky, structured Pinot Noir and reference-point Chardonnay and Pinot Gris; the family also famously co-founded Oregon's craft beer movement via BridgePort Brewing. Founding blood, French vote of confidence.
A 1970 founding family whose daughters built the benchmark, now Bollinger's first home outside Champagne.
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Founding 1970,the Ponzis pioneered alongside Oregon's first wave.
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Sister-run decades,winemaker Luisa and president Maria defined generation two.
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Bollinger's choice,the Champagne house acquired its first non-French estate here in 2021.
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Laurelwood soils,the family championed the district's AVA.
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BridgePort besides,the Ponzis helped launch Oregon craft beer.
"A 1970 founding family whose daughters built the benchmark, now Bollinger's first home outside Champagne."
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Visit Website →Founding Estate Tasting
Daily tasting at one of Oregon's most historically significant founding family estates, Reserve Pinot Noir, Abetina, and Reserve Chardonnay from Luisa Ponzi's second-generation stewardship of the Chehalem Mountains property that Dick and Nancy Ponzi planted in 1970. Picnic grounds and Willamette Valley views.
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