Winery Focus

Willakenzie
After a successful career in high tech, Bernard Lacroute decided that growing Pinot Noir in Oregon would be a satisfying way to return to his Burgundian roots. A Wine Spectator ad for land, (thankfully, they are not in the vineyard land rating business or the 95+ points would surely have doubled the price!) led Bernard and his wife Ronni to purchase a 420-acre cattle ranch in Yamhill, Oregon in January 1991.

In 1992 they started planting vineyards on south facing slopes to replace pasture, blackberries and poison oak. They built a brand new multi-level gravity fed winery in 1995. Today over 100 acres of mostly Pinot grape vineyards, which are painstakingly arranged around the untouched native majestic Douglas firs, grace the Willakenzie soil after which the winery is named.

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