page_title: Cristom Vineyards
section_title: Wines
hierarchical_section_title: Cristom Vineyards / Wines
caption_attribution_description: Early stages of veraison of Pinot noir in late August in the Eola-Amity Hills area of Oregon.
context_page_description: Cristom Vineyards is an Oregon wine producer and vineyard based near Salem, U.S. It is in the Eola-Amity Hills wine region within the Willamette Valley AVA, about 6 miles northwest of Keizer.
context_section_description: Cristom is best known for its Pinot noir based wines. Four single vineyard wines are produced with Pinot noir grapes from the vineyards Marjorie, Louise, Jessie and Eileen.
  Cristom also produces a Pinot noir blends, the Mount Jefferson Cuvee named after a mountain visible from the winery. The Mount Jefferson Cuvee is a blend from ten different vineyards, with the best barrels of the blend being separated to be bottled as the Sommers Reserve wine. Around 3,500 cases of the Mount Jefferson and 1,250 cases of the "Sommers" Reserve are produced each year.
  In addition to Pinot noir, Cristom also produces a Syrah based red wine from the estate vineyard.
  White wines are produced from three varieties: a single vineyard Chardonnay as well as Pinot gris and Viognier. 
  Around 18,000 cases of wine are produced each vintage, with about 1,500 of that total being white wines.
caption: Pinot noir grapes at Cristom Vineyard
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