Wine Crush Season 2, Episode 10

Guest Biographies

Jared Etzel

Jared grew up on the Beaux Freres Vineyard and was schooled in Enology and Viticulture at Oregon State University. He worked vintages at Cristom and Brick House Vineyards before traveling to Spain where he worked at Artadi & Clos Erasmus. Before developing Domaine Roy, Jared moved to California where he worked with Fisher Vineyards, Kapcsandy, and Blankiet. Jared’s inspiration comes from the many organic and biodynamic estate vineyards making soulful wines specific to their site and vintage.

Jason Hanson

Jason did his undergraduate studies in upstate New York, and then obtained a Master’s in politics from George Washington University. For a while he had his own company doing political research. He lived in D.C. for 14 years before finally deciding that he did not really enjoy being that closely involved with politics.

He had a true desire to get back to the Pacific Northwest. His father had retired from teaching and they started talking. While it took a few years to figure it all out, they then we got some grapes in the ground and in 2005 got their commercial winemaking license.

Eleven varieties are now in the ground on the fourth generation family farm.  Currently about nine and a half acres of vines accounts for the majority of their grape production.  Butte Creek has washed away much of the soil and left behind two distinct areas:  sandy, rocky ground where you will find their Pommard, Dijon 115, Wadenswil and Riesling blocks.

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