If there is such a thing as the luck of the Irish, winemaker David
O'Reilly has found a pot of gold underneath his Willamette Valley,
Oregon rainbow.
O'Reilly is a dapper man- meticulous in appearance and in his work.
When he smiles, there is mischief in his eyes and smile crinkles-a
sign that smiling is a frequent behavior.
Everything O'Reilly touches has to be the best. It is almost an obsession
with him. From huge, gorgeous wines to hand-numbered bottles and
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Fresh-picked black berries, blue berries, and a hint of dried wild rose essence on the finish. The rich, creamy texture belies the price, and we're not stretching to say this is the best Sharecropper's Pinot yet.
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Raspberry, loganberry, strawberry - juicy and fresh. Very subtle cinnamon stick accents carry through on the finish. Excellent weight and a broad, silky texture make this THE deal in Oregon Pinot noir, every year.
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Owen Roe Sinister Hand 07
Price: $23.95
$21.55 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Owen Roe's Sinister Hand 2007 is rich and full-bodied. Dark purple in color, with a nose of sweet spice box and white pepper, the wine coats the palate with fresh fruit - sweet red and black cherries, black currant, and blackberries. Smooth and i...read more
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The 2007 Ex Umbris Syrah is the best Ex Umbris yet. Gobs of Marionberries and black raspberries are interspersed with licorice, milk chocolate, and coffee. A superbly rich, supple texture helps carry lingering sweet fruit, violets, and white pe...read more
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Owen Roe Dubrul Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 06 opens with aromas of caramel-inflected rich, dark cherries, ground cinnamon, and barrel toast that usher in a concentrated palate of plush, dark currants, black cherries, and blackberries. Savory note...read more
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Owen Roe Lady Rosa Syrah 07 - Wine Spectator 94 points: "Polished, refined and beautifully focused to show its plum, clove, nutmeg and cream flavors against superfine tannins. The flavors persist elegantly on the long, expressive...read more
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Owen Roe Sharecroppers Cabernet 07 has smoky blackberry and dark cherry aromas that leap out, signaling the showiness of this young Cabernet. Packed with juicy black fruit flavors--especially cassis--this is a big mouthful of Cab, with dried herbs...read more
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Owen Roe Ironbird Cabernet Sauvignon 06
Price: $28.95
$26.05 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Owen Roe's Ironbird Cabernet Sauvignon 06 is a big, meaty, masculine wine, dense and chewy, calling out for grilled red meat.
Very limited, only 160 cases made, we have a tiny amt of this Cab, usually sold only at the winery. Made from South...read more
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Owen Roe's Rosa Mystica Cabernet Franc 07 - Aromas of bright red berries, wet stone, cardamom. Elegant flavors of red berry liquer and currant on the palate conceals the spicy tannins and grilled herbs on the finish....read more
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The Owen Roe Eola-Amity Hills Pinot noir 06 is made in a hedonistic, over-the-top style more typical of cult California Pinots than of Oregon's more structured offerings. It is fleshy, weighty and saturated with berry and cherry cobbler flavors, ...read more
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Owen Roe Pinot noir Santa Maria 06 - "A Santa Maria Pinot Noir from an Oregon producer. Sourced from Bien Nacido Vineyard. The winemaker is David O’Reilly, one of the few Irish born American winemakers. The image of an old Mission Church along El Ca...read more
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Excellent value. This combines all the richness and balancing acidity of the 2008 vintage with the stunning value of the O'Reilly's label.
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Corvidae Wine Company's "Keeper" Cabernet Franc 07 is made by Owen Roe. This Cabernet Franc is plush and velvety, full-bodied and easy drinking. The scent and flavors knock you out - spice joins black tea, fresh tobacco, thyme, sweet cedar chips,...read more
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Corvidae "Lenore" Syrah from Owen Roe is here. Drink overly expensive Syrahs nevermore! Syrah grown in the Columbia Valley has great spice, bright fruit, deep purple hues, and gorgeous texture and is really a steal for the quality it delivers. ...read more
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Corvidae Wine Company's "Rook" blended red wine is a crowd-pleaser. It's a blend of Cabernet, Merlot, and Syrah from three distinctly different vineyards - Ironbird Vineyard, in Southern Oregon's Applegate Valley, Erickson Vineyard, in Washin...read more
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Owen Roe Walla Walla Cabernet Sauvignon 06
Price: $42.00
$37.80 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Owen Roe Walla Walla Cabernet Sauvignon 06 is the last vintage of this wine from Owen Roe.
David O'Reilly's take on the beautifully ripe fruit of Walla Walla. A more showy wine, the 06 Walla Walla Cab lays its lush cards on the table. Dee...read more
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The Northwest Vine Project's Cabernet Franc 06 is made from fruit from Elerding's Six Prong Vineyard. In 2006, the small Cab Franc crop was harvested in late October, yielding wonderfully rich fruit flavors with nice acidity. New oak was limited in...read more
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Owen Roe Abbot's Table 2007
Price: $20.94
$18.85 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Abbot's Table 2007 re-defines "crowd-pleaser." It's an every-person wine. The aromas ooze with sweet red and black fruit, highlighted by berry blossoms - you can sense the contributions from the Cab Fr...read more
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Murphy's Law Rose 07
Price: $12.95
$11.65 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Murphy's Law Rose is made by Owen Roe Winery. The 2007 Murphy's Law Rose will be released in June, 2008.
Murphy's Law is a well priced, quaffable rose!
The back of the bottle says: "Here's to making a disaster of a wine. A gorgeo...read more
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Murphy's Law Red 2006
Price: $12.95
$11.65 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Owen Roe's David O'Reilly's newest "value" wine, Murphy's Law is a well priced, quaffable red blend! The back of the bottle says: "Here's to making a disaster of a wine. A gorgeous red blend of Grenache, Syrah, and Blaufrankish from the Columbia...read more
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The Northwest Vine Project's 2006 Malbec was made by David O'Reilly (Owen Roe). The fruit for the wine was sourced from Dr. Steve Elerding’s Six Prong Vineyard from vines planted in the early ‘90s. The site is on a bluff in Alderdale overlookin...read more
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The 2006 Red Splendor is a brilliant, bombastic melange of varieties from Sangiovese, to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, and others. But the real focus of the wine is the Columbia Valley soil, which gives both minerality and muscular backbone...read more
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Owen Roe Yakima Red 06
Price: $42.00
$37.80 - Any 12 bottles
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A tiny fraction of 2006 Yakima Red was made, compared to the 2005. Big, ripe, and supple,the 2006 Yakima Red is still structured enough for cellaring. Get some now before it's gone!
The Merlot is from DuBrul Vineyard, while the Cabernet Fr...read more
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Owen Roe Zinfandel 05
Price: $35.95
$32.36 - Any 12 bottles
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What a crowd pleaser! The nose combines sweet red cherry and raspberry fruit with fresh forest - a hint of the scent of swishing through fall leaves on a cold sunny winter day.
Flavors are of candied red cherry, sweet raspberry, rich, rich fl...read more
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Owen Roe Dubrul Merlot 06
Price: $44.95
$40.46 - Any 12 bottles
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The aromas are so welcoming--cherry cream, pipe tobacco, and caramel, which guides you into the glass. A powerful gush of concentrated mixed plums and currants lavishes your palate. Tons of pure, sweet fruit, milk chocolate, and cedar spice sail...read more
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Owen Roe Riesling comes from a tiny block of grapes in the vineyard David made famous, the Dubrul Vineyard in Washington State's Yakima Valley.
it is a complex, crisp wine with plenty of sophisticated fruit flavors, clean mineral notes, and long fi...read more
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Corvidae Fable Petit Syrah 07 - Owen Roe
Price: $16.95
$15.25 - Any 12 bottles
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Corvidae Wine Company's "Fable" Petit Syrah 07 is made by Owen Roe. What a value! This is a wild wine, big and black, made from a grape that's quite rare in the Pacific Northwest.
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Owen Roe Dubrul Vineyard Chardonnay 07
Price: $31.95
$28.75 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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David takes this very limited wine (28 cases made) to wine dinners, and he says it creates a "wow moment" every time. He compares it in style to a good Meursault, combining gorgeous aromatics and intense tropical fruit flavors with a racy acidity and...read more
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Owen Roe Kilmore Pinot noir 07
Price: $41.95
$37.76 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Owen Roe's Kilmore Pinot noir 07 is muscular, with a finish that hangs on for minutes. Aromas of baking spices and dried flowers mesh with gushing blackberry, black cherry, and marionberry flavors. Silky and fat on the palate, with fine tannins a...read more
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Owen Roe Slide Mountain Cabernet Franc 06
Price: $71.95
$64.75 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Owen Roe Slide Mountain Cabernet Franc 06 is a serious cellar candidate. Tightly wound, with gobs of cherry candy accented by green peppercorns. The flavors glide over a massively textured body, finishing with white pepper and graphite. This wi...read more
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Corvidae Mirth Chardonnay 07/08 - Owen Roe
Price: $9.95
$8.96 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)
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Corvidae Wine Company's "Mirth" Chardonnay from Owen Roe satisfies cravings for a big, juicy hot weather Chardonnay. With the Mirth Chardonnay, Owen Roe continues its tradition of offering over-the-top quaffers at marvelous prices....read more
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MORE INFORMATION
If there is such a thing as the luck of the Irish, winemaker David
O'Reilly has found a pot of gold underneath his Willamette Valley,
Oregon rainbow.
O'Reilly is a dapper man- meticulous in appearance and in his work.
When he smiles, there is mischief in his eyes and smile crinkles-a
sign that smiling is a frequent behavior.
Everything O'Reilly touches has to be the best. It is almost an obsession
with him. From huge, gorgeous wines to hand-numbered bottles and objects
of art gracing his labels, O'Reilly spends the money for a total package.
"Every thing we do is meticulous," said O'Reilly, 37, one
of 12 children born in Belfast, Ireland. "What we do is totally
uncompromised. It is a lifestyle that includes hard work, but the product
is thoroughly rewarding."
Everything O'Reilly does is also thoroughly Irish. The wineries associated
with O'Reilly-Sineann (pronounced Shen-ay-yan), Owen Roe, and O'Reilly's
-all have ties to his former homeland. Sineann is Gaelic for Shannon
River, considered the lifeblood of Ireland. The name stems from a mythical
princess of the Leprechauns, who drowned in the river. Owen Roe was
named for Owen Roe O'Neil, a great Irish patriot. And, of course, O'Reilly's,
which features a drawing of a huge Irish wolfhound on the label.
David O'Reilly
How Owen Roe got its Name
One of the most lasting and identifiable
symbols of Ireland, the red hand, is taken from the O Neill
coat of arms.
The
symbol predates the advent of
formal heraldry, which was introduced
by the Normans and is recorded
on the battle standards of the
Uí Neill in the fourth
and fifth centuries. Even the family motto "Lám
Dearg Éirinn" means "the red hand of Ireland".
There are many legends as to how the
O Neills acquired their motto. One story is that when their
ancestors sailed close to the northeast tip of Ireland they
agreed that whoever landed first would have that area of
land.
A
quick-witted warrior chopped
off his left hand, threw it onto
the shore and claimed his reward!
Modern coats of arms show the symbol
as a right hand, but the more
ancient records clearly have
it as "sinister" or
left.
Owen Roe O'Neill
Poem on the back of
the "Sinister Hand" Bottle
Need land,
row lake,
race kinsfolk for it,
falling behind,
need land,
row harder,
need to touch land first,
falling behind,
row harder,
not going to make it,
grab my sword,
throw ashore,
touched land first.
Owen Roe's beautiful labels
Individual numbering of each bottle
Owe Roe Winery is located on this
Century Farm property
Owen Roe business partner Jerry Owen
with Screwcap finished O'Reilly's wine
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