In Decanter, Pete Holland describes the efforts of David Lett to establish Pinot Noir in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. He writes:
After being walloped by what he called a ‘cosmic brick’ – a lifelong love of Pinot Noir from Burgundy – David Lett embarked on a quest to see where else, if anywhere else, this fickle grape could reach the same pinnacle of quality.
His search led him to Oregon’s Willamette Valley and, in 1965, he established the region’s first plantings of Pinot Noir.
The connection between Burgundy and Pinot’s new promised land, once merely cosmic, was now concrete.
We last reported on the France-Willamette Valley connection in 2019 and, as you might expect, much has changed.
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