Argyle Winery
Vintage Brut
Since its first vintage in 1987, Argyle Brut has always been vintage-dated & 100% Argyle-grown. Argyle is the Pacific Northwest's Most Celebrated Sparkling wine producer – the first in the U.S. to use late-season ripening, Dijon Clones.
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Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
Argyle Pinot Noir is 100% Argyle-Grown. Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is a stunning showcase of classic, cool-climate varietal character.
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Extended Tirage Brut
Each year, Argyle makes its classic, Vintage Brut. A small portion of each vintage is set aside to gently age on-the-yeast (or en tirage) for ten full years. The results speak for themselves: Argyle 'Extended Tirage' Brut is the New World's Highest Rated Sparkling Wine.
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Brut Rosé
Argyle Brut Rosé is a delicate blend of Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir grown on the highest-elevation blocks of Knudsen Vineyards in Oregon's famed Dundee Hills.
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Nuthouse Chardonnay
Nuthouse Chardonnay is Argyle's original 'cool-white' from Oregon's Cool Climate, one of the New World's Most Celebrated Dijon Clones Chardonnays. Nuthouse Chardonnay is 100% Argyle-Grown, handpicked, cold-pressed & barrel-fermented in New French Oak for 12 months using our proprietary 'wild' yeasts.
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Nuthouse Pinot Noir
Argyle's Nuthouse pinot noir lays its claim to 'Oregon-Icon' status: 100% Argyle-Grown at our Lone Star Vineyard. Nuthouse Pinot Noir is our biggest, boldest Pinot Noir year after year.
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Reserve Pinot Noir
This is Benchmark Oregon Pinot Noir. Reserve Pinot Noir is Aged 16 months in French oak barrels & is a balance of red and black cherry flavors, rose petal aromas & Argyle's famous 'silky texture'.
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Spirithouse Pinot Noir
Spirithouse Pinot Noir is Argyle's balanced expression of 'Power & Grace'. 100% Argyle-grown at Knudsen Vineyard, Spirithouse is our most elegant, latest-ripening Pinot Noir, year after year. Spirithouse has an ethereal quality that lives up to its name.
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Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Our Willamette Valley Chardonnay is our first to 'leave home' each year. This Chardonnay spends only 6 months in neutral French oak barrels, leaving barely an imprint on the crisp, cool-climate juice.
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Eola-Amity Hills Riesling
Argyle Riesling is the New World's only high-density Riesling that grows on devigorated root-stocks. Grown on sun-drenched, East-facing slopes of our benchmark Lone Star Vineyard in the Eola Hills, this is Riesling is cutting edge.
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Argyle Winery was established in Dundee, Oregon in the Willamette Valley in 1987.
Argyle is a "Grower First", focusing our attention at the source – continually improving viticulture on over 650 hillside acres sited on the very best vineyard locations in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Argyle's commitment to improvement, at the vineyards and at the winery, has been built on a bedrock of innovation and practices that are L.I.V.E. – Certified Sustainable & Oregon Certified Sustainable.
Willamette Valley, Oregon
The Willamette Valley is a 100 mile long sweet-spot nestled between the Coast range to the West and the Cascades to the East, just North of the 45th Parallel. The Coast range creates a 'rain shadow' effect that keeps the valley dry and temperate and the Cascades protect the valley from the extremes of Oregon's interior.
Oregon's cool climate provides a long, slow growing season essential for development of complex fruit flavors in wine grapes.
The 'Cool' climate in Oregon can be extended to reflect the Oregon Spirit which is about a rugged, pioneering individualism on the one hand and a rare spirit of cooperation amongst wineries on the other. Oregon Wineries share resources, facilities, ideas, advice, staff & 'the stage' with each other.
Rollin Soles, Winemaker and Founder, Argyle
Rollin Soles fell in love with the beauty of Oregon while visiting his future adopted home in the late 1970's. At the time he was a graduate student in enology at the University of California at Davis. It was almost ten years later, in 1987 that Rollin co-founded Argyle with the help of Australian vintner Brian Croser whom he had met at UC Davis.
When Rollin arrived in Oregon in 1987, he brought with him 10 years of experience working in cellars throughout Europe, California, and Australia. This experience prepared him for the challenge of establishing Argyle among the elite producers of Oregon.
Rollin was attracted by the cool climate of the Northern Willamette Valley and the challenge of growing world class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and turning them into to "top-of-class" Sparkling and table wines.
Why Oregon? "First of all, I felt Oregon would be a great place to settle and raise my family. And secondly, I was looking for a professional challenge. The wine industry was young and showing lots of potential. I wanted to be a part of it, to tap into it's potential and see what I could accomplish."
Success for Argyle came during the very first vintage in 1987. When it was released in 1990, the first vintage of Chardonnay was awarded 93 points from Wine Spectator and aded to it's Top 100 Wines in the World that year. In the twenty-plus years years since, he's garnered that distinction 10 additional times... and counting!
Rollin has been recognized as Oregon's 'Go-To-Guy' for consistently age-worthy wines from this fickle, cool-climate region.
Starting Argyle by making world class Sparkling Wine has given Rollin a unique skill set, excelling in Oregon's most difficult vintages.