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Shea Vineyard named one of five Pinot Noir vineyards in the U.S. meriting the designation "Grand Cru".
—Wine Enthusiast
Pinots made from Shea Vineyard tend to be deeply concentrated and supple, with bold structure...
—Wine Spectator
"The wines of Shea Wine Cellars are invariably elegant expressions of what makes Oregon pinot noir so great: focused fruit, velvety texture, strong structure, and that almost indefinable ability to reflect the nuances of where the fruit was grown."
—Cole Danehower, Northwest Palate
A consistent floral aroma and a dark red fruit, character with spice seems unusually clear and unique to this vineyard. Shea Wine Cellars Pinot Noirs have become a cult classic collectible.
—Rusty Gafney, Pinot File & Grape Radio
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The Wines of Shea Wine Cellars - A Tasting Review
Grape Radio’s Rusty Gaffney (aka, The Prince of Pinot) invited us to take part in a tasting of wines from Oregon’s Shea Vineyard – specifically, the wines made by Shea Wine Cellars from Estate fruit. It had almost been two years since we had last tasted a flight of wines from this vineyard (2005 vintage – Show 181), so we felt it was high time to take a look at them once again.
Listen to the review by graperadio
Sustainability Award
For the fifth straight year we have been recognized by the US Department of Agriculture for "conservation stewardship". The Conservation Security Program (recently continued as the Conservation Stewardship Program) is a holistic program evaluating farmers for: air, water, soil, energy, and plant conservation practices. It is a science based approach to environmental stewardship. The Ag Department conducts a competitive ranking process among farmers. We were ranked in the top group of our area farmers (the top 33 out of well over 500) in 2005 and in every annual ranking since we have been ranked in the best practices group. We were just readmitted for 2010 at the highest level.
First Reviews of our 2007 Vintage Wines
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate has release its annual review of Oregon Pinot Noir.
Their ratings of our 2007 vintage Pinots were: Estate 91, East Hill 92, Block 33, 93 and Homer 94. The 94 rating for Homer was the highest rating given any 2007 Oregon wine. Yes we still have a little.
They rated our 2007 Chardonnay 90.
The Wine Spectator has awarded the Estate 90, Block 33 a 90 and Pommard Clone 91.
Pinot Report is also now in with its reviews of the 2007 Vintage. They have awarded the East Hill and the Pommard Clone a rating of 97, Homer 95 and Estate 94. The 97 rating is tied for the highest rating they have ever given an Oregon Pinot. The only other time they awarded a rating that high to an Oregon wine was for the Shea Wine Cellars 2006 East Hill.
WINE SPECTATOR: The Wine Spectator profiled us.
Read more (PDF) or read it on the Wine Spectator (registration required)
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: The New Cult Wines
"The New Cults: Upstart wines shoot for Screaming Eagle Status". They named three "new cults" from outside California: Shea Wine Cellars and from Washington State Quilceda Creek and Cayuse.
SHEA VINEYARDS VIDEO
Watch the Grape Radio podcast with Dick Shea as they explore the smells and tastes of Oregon’s Shea Vineyards - one bottle at a time.
PINOTFILE FEATURE
PinotFile just profiled the vineyard, our new winery building and other things "Shea".
Read about it here (1MB PDF).
FOOD AND WINE SOCIETY OF OREGON: RANKED OLD WINES
The Food and Wine Society of Oregon conducted a blind tasting of 16 Oregon Pinots from the 1998 vintage. The top rated wine was The Shea Wine Cellars, Block 21. Three of the top 4 wines were from Shea Vineyard. Read about it here.
MAILING LIST/2007 VINTAGE WINES
Our 2007 vintage wines are available. Go to "The Wines" page for more details. E-mail us if you would like to make a purchase.
Contact us if you would like to be added to our mailing list: dickshea@sheawinecellars.com. Our letter only goes out via USPS so please leave your postal address.
10/30/2009
Harvest went from 9/24 thorough 10/11. We had record hang time and picked VERY ripe, dry, disease free fruit. Lots and lots of ripe flavor. Very exciting!
Dick Shea
12/17/2009 We are half way through ML already (the point when we really get a true feeling of the character of the vintage) and these wines are really exciting. They will be right up there with my other two favorite years of the decade 2004 and 2008 (and it has been a very good decade). The wines are very big, ripe and full of mouth coating flavor. They should be very long lived too.
10/30/2009. We pressed our last lot from the 2009 harvest today. Vineyard hang time was record duration and these are wonderfully ripe wines. Perfect for our style. We are quite excited about the prospects for this vintage. The Chardonnay looks just as good as the Pinots.
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Mailing address: 4304 SW Strathfell Lane, Portland, OR 97221 | Vineyard and Winery location: 12321 NE Hwy 240, Newberg, OR 97132
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