Pike Road Pinot Gris is a white wine from the Willamette Valley in Oregon, USA. The grapes come from various fields in the area, primarily Pike Road’s own, but also from selected partners. This “multi-vineyard” method, according to Pike Road, gives a more complex wine. They are all picked by hand, gently pressed and cold-fermented in steel tanks, so that the wine retains as much freshness as possible.
Colour: Light golden.
Scent: Apple, lime, pear and nectarine.
Tasting notes: Grapefruit and ginger notes with a delicious, lively acidity.
Serving suggestions: Enjoy it chilled with light meat, fish or shellfish, e.g. scallops.
Pike Road Wines sent their first bottles to the market in 2016. Behind the enterprise we find the Campbell family, who planted their first fields in 1974 and at the same time started the now well-known winery, Elk Cove.
The idea behind Pike Road Wines is to sell high quality wine made from grapes grown exclusively in the Willamette Valley, but at prices that are more accessible than what you normally see in the area. The new initiative was named after the road that snakes through the lush valley and continues deep into the Oregon Coast Range – the mountains that are so important to the Willamette Valley’s favorable growing conditions.
At Pike Road, you have no reservations about buying grapes from other winegrowers, as long as the quality is top notch. On the contrary, they want to do their part to ensure that the small farmers and family businesses around the Willamette Valley can survive, and in many cases the Campbell family has had decades of working with these farmers! Therefore, several of the wines are made from both Pike Road’s own grapes and lots from selected farmers in the area. They also emphasize that this “multi-vineyard” method can in some cases produce a more complex wine.
