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Penner-Ash Wines |
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Penner-Ash is a family winery, the dream of long time Rex Hill winemaker Lynn Penner-Ash and her husband, Ron Penner-Ash. They founded the winery in 2000, made their first wines for the 2000 vintage, and planted eight acres of their estate vineyard in April of 2003. They made their wine at the Carlton Winemakers Studio, a cooperative winery facility, for two years until their own winery was built. Their winery, high atop a ridge overlooking Beaux Freres and Patricia Green Cellars, is one of the most gorgeous in Oregon.
Lynn and Ron's 80 acres of land on Ribbon Road are across the valley and above Beaux Freres and Patricia Green Cellars. The Penner-Ashes have planted about 20 acres to Pinot noir at the winery and make several wines from their Dussin Vineyard. They are also known for their wines made from some of Oreogn's best vineyards, including Shea and Momtazi Vineyards, and for Syrah (the new darling of the Willamette Valley producers) from the Del Rio and Lewis Vineyards in warmer Southern Oregon. For a bargain red wine from a top-flight winemaker, you can't beat Lynn's irreverent blend, "Rubeo". Who thought that Pinot noir blended with Syrah could be so much fun. No illusions to intellectual wine analysis here, just snappy, quaffable ready to drink red wine, impeccably created by a master winemaker. Read: Shark sighting at Penner-Ash Winery! The Wines of Penner-Ash
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The mission at Penner-Ash Wine Cellars
is to produce limited quantities of carefully crafted Pinot Noir and
Syrah. Lynn and Ron work in partnership with their growers, who share
their commitment to optimal viticulture using such methods as timely
shoot positioning, leaf removal and early crop thinning.
