Jay Somers first worked making wine with John Paul, winemaker and owner
of tiny cult winery Cameron. In 1999, after three vintages at Cameron,
he partnered with Bill Holloran, a software executive with a love of wine,
and they built a small winery on Holloran's farm.
In return for making
Holloran's Holloran Winery and Stafford Hill label wines, Jay uses the
facility to make his own J Christopher label. Jay tries to work with
organic vineyards as much as possible.
Lab at J Christopher
Absolutely solid in fruit profile, tannin stucture, and acidity. Ripe blackberries and big bing cherries mix with dense earth to create an irresistable pinot. The layers of complexity build from the ...read more >>
Full of sweet lychee, white peach and preserved lemon zest it is a complex and refreshing. Made with no oak and no malolactic fermentation the J. Christopher Chehalem is pleasantly crisp and bright
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Bright fresh apricot is big on the nose and follows through the palette picking up pleasant traces of minerality and bright green apples. Slight traces of bitter citrus peel, lemon and orange, are rac ...read more
Excellent winemaker Jay Somers releases this wine each fall and it sells out quickly. Complex, refreshing, it has an unusually large range of floral and fruit flavors with clean, crisp finish. ...read more
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The nose is immediately likeable and with a wiff of sweet mint and ripe cherry. The palette has a silky mouthfeel full of ripe red currants, raspberry jam and cherry compote. Hints of savory fresh th ...read more >>
Le Pavillon is the Estate vineyard of J Christopher and Holloran (the sister winery of J Christopher). Both wineries' products are made at the home/winery of the Hollaran family, where a lovely selec ...read more >>
Matt Kramer. the February 3, 2008 Oregonian, had this to say about the J Christpher Zoot Allures: "richly fruity, succulent pinot noir from Jay Somers of J. Christopher Wines fame. It's never been
