456: Ehren Jordan Has Eyes for Oregon

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🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ehren Jordan is the proprietor of the Failla winery, which specializes in Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah from California and now also Oregon. Ehren is also the owner of the Day wine label, working with Zinfandel.

Ehren discusses his decision to work increasingly with fruit from Oregon vineyards, while comparing and contrasting those with the vineyards he is familiar with in California. He also addresses aspects of his winemaking in Oregon, in terms of technique. Reduction in wine is something that he talks about at length. Ehren also highlights his interest in working with Gamay, Savagnin, Syrah, and other grape varieties from Oregon, in addition to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. There is also a consideration for what the wine market is today within this conversation, and what the current market means for both the production and sales possibilities for wines from both Oregon and California. Day, which is Ehren's Zinfandel project, is also discussed.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, And Jordan returns to the show. Hello sir, how are you? I'm great. Nice to see you. It's nice to see you again.
0:30.0	I don't know if I've ever expressed this to you, but your interview the last time has proved to be one of the most popular in the history of the show and so I think a lot of people who maybe heard that one would be excited to hear you again and I know you have some projects that are new and some that we didn't talk about last time so it's great to welcome me back.
0:47.4	Thank you. That's welcome news and I'm thrilled to be here. I always love the conversation.
0:52.3	So we're here in Oregon and Oregon is a theme that you've returned to recently, but actually
0:58.2	you made a 2001 Pinot Noir from the Goldschmidt Vineyard even when you are based solely in California.
1:04.0	Yep. My curiosity, interest, love of Oregon has taken a while to mature, but it's been there for a long time.
1:15.0	You even made a resling from Oregon Fruit early on in the Nyer's days, right?
1:18.6	I did, yes.
1:19.6	That was actually an outgrowth of the Pino Noir. I was looking at the Pinot Noir and
1:26.2	Neil and Diana Goldschmidt owned the vineyard and a guy named Andy Humphreys
1:30.0	farmed it for them. And so we were standing on the Goldschmidt's porch and he was giving me the tour.
1:37.4	So this is up on Wharton Hill School Road and Dundee, sort of the Rodeo Drive of this part of the world, a lot of really well thought
1:46.5	of vineyards in that neighborhood, and he was just pointing everything out to give me, here's
1:50.5	the lay of the land, and he had pointed everything out except one
1:54.1	vineyard that was immediately adjacent and slightly below the Goldschmidt
1:58.8	Vineyard and I said well you kind of left one out he's like oh it's Riesling and I like
2:03.7	reasoning it looks old he's like oh yeah it's like 72 73 unrooted and I said what happens to that recently?
2:13.4	He said, oh, I farm it.
2:14.7	I, we, I mean, always looking for home.
2:17.5	And so I went back and Bruce Niers had worked at least one, if not two harvests in Germany and I told him about it and he said
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