

We strive to find the soul of our wines in the vineyard, to produce authentic wines with a consistent sense-of-place. We farm and partner with distinctive, late-ripening vineyards in the willamette valley to produce principally Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Gamay. Racked carefully and bottled on April 15, 2020, Unfined & Unfiltered.Ībout Martin Woods Our winery is secluded in the wooded foothills of oregon's coast range, within the mcminnville ava. Aged 18 months on lees (no stirring) in Oregon and French oak barrels (228L). No SO2 addition until ML completed in Spring 2021. 20% whole clusters included in small open top 1.5 ton fermenters. This is where Jesse was born in 1847, and years later, Union soldiers seeking the whereabouts of Frank James, beat Jesse and tortured his stepfather Dr. Notes on Winemaking picked Octoat 23.6 brix, 3.25 pH. the wines offer a wonderful presentation today, but will certainly gain in complexity over many years in the cellar-2018 is a Martin Woods vintage to invest in, across the entire range! The resulting wines have generosity and depth, but with tremendous textural definition, finesse and freshness. Fruit set and yields were naturally low and an extended dry Autumn allowed for a reliable picking schedule of clean, beautiful fruit. total rainfall was lower than normal, but timely rains in late-winter and early-spring charged the soil with enough moisture to carry the vines through the dry summer.
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The Growing Season 2018 continued the trend of a gradually warming climate in the Willamette, although the summer was free of significant heat spikes, which spared the grapes from excessive stress. We lease and co-farm the vineyard with Beaux Freres, who share our passion and excitement for this vineyard owned by Jessica and James Lee, from whom the vineyard takes its name. The wines display exceptional depth and complexity of structure and fruit, with freshness and intensity. The Nekia soil (shallow, rocky volcanic basalt) provides appropriate stress to the plants, resulting in sparse canopies and loose clusters with small berries and thick skins. Furthermore, the vineyard is in a rain shadow, allowing the grapes to reach peak maturity with less risk of botrytis rot. the high-density (2,400 vines/acre), four acre planting of vines at Jessie James is east-facing at high elevation‒ripening here is patient. The Terroir The eola-Amity Hills is situated to the immediate east of the Van Duzer Corridor, the "air-conditioning" pathway through the Coast Range where marine air enters from the west and cools the Willamette Valley. Vine age and clonal selections: planted 1996, Pommard and Wadenswil Visit the Patee House Museum and Jesse James Home website.Tasting notes compact red fruit, spice and floral aromas-fresh, mouthfilling, fine-grain tannin structure-will become very complex with extended agingĮlevation / aspect: 675 feet, south-east facing, gentle to moderate slope

The house was moved back to its original neighborhood and today it is located on the grounds of Patee House Museum. Robert Keatley purchased the James Home in 1977 and donated it to the Pony Express Historical Association.

In 1939 it was moved to the Belt Highway in St. The James Home was originally located about two blocks north of its present location, at 1318 Lafayette Street, on a high hill overlooking Patee House. The Jesse James Museum is operated by the Pony Express Historical Association with all proceeds from admission charges going to help maintain both the James Home and Patee House Museum. Artifacts from the grave are now on display including the coffin handles, a small tie pin Jesse James was wearing the day he was killed, a bullet removed from his right lung area, and a casting of his skull, showing the bullet hole behind his right ear. The results showed a 99.7% certainty that it was Jesse James who was killed here in 1882.

In 1995 forensic scientist James Starrs exhumed the outlaw's body at Kearney, Missouri, for DNA tests. Today the James Home is a museum dealing with the life and death of Jesse James. Zerelda Samuel, spent the next two nights at Patee House, which was then called the World's Hotel. After the shooting, Jesse's wife and two children and his mother, Mrs. Jesse was shot from behind while he stood on a chair to straighten a picture in his own home. He was living with his wife and two children under the assumed name of Tom Howard at the time of his death. Jesse died at the age of 34 after living a lawless career for 16 years. He was killed by Bob Ford, a member of the James gang, to collect a $10,000 reward offered by Governor Tom Crittenden. Notorious outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed in this house on April 3, 1882.
