2020 Holiday Pairings Guide Booklet - Flipbook - Page 3
Dear Wine Enthusiast,
Please enjoy our Holiday Pairings & Gift Guide, inspired by the wine and food pairings served in our
Estate Tasting Room. The featured wine collections are perfect for gifting and sharing with your friends
and family.
While the winery faced its most challenging year since its founding, we were humbled by the outpouring
of support from our Owners, Wine Club Members and customers whose wine purchases during the 66day shutdown allowed the winery to continue to take care of our employees and support the community.
THANK YOU. While the Tasting Room was closed, Winery Chef DJ MacIntyre delivered hundreds
of meals to our community members on the frontlines and we donated more than 350 bottles to our
incredible nurses at local hospitals.
At the onset of the pandemic, we paused our development activities for Bernau Estate in the Dundee
Hills. Construction has since resumed and we look forward to sharing the méthode champenoise
sparkling wine underground aging cellar and biodynamically-farmed vineyard and gardens with you. We
anticipate a 2022 opening.
In early March, we opened Willamette Wineworks, a microwinery located in Folsom, California that
features a unique Barrel Blending System allowing guests to create their own wine blends. We are
enjoying being part of this vibrant community allowing us to take our Oregon wine story on the road.
To keep our guests and employees safe in our tasting rooms, we installed a new state-of-the-art UV light
filtration in our HVAC system to reduce harmful viruses in the air, including COVID-19, and treated
the Estate Tasting Room with MicroShield, a self-disinfecting coating that kills bacteria and viruses on
contact. Our research led us to discover that UV light can also be used to kill pathogens — like powdery
mildew — in our vineyards and is a substitute for our use of organic sulfur. If our experiments prove
successful, it will also allow conventional growers to decrease their use of fungicides.
Despite the smoke from the regional wildfires, our estate vineyards
produced a very high-quality crop from historic low yields and we were able
to help other growers in need.
Thank you for your continued support of our authentic Oregon wines.
We wish you and your loved ones a safe and joyous holiday season.
Warm Regards,
Jim Bernau
Founder/Winegrower