Welcome To Monks Gate Vineyard

Monks Gate vineyard is located in the Yamhill-Carlton District AVA of Oregon’s northern Willamette Valley. Renowned for its production of luscious Pinot Noir wines, the region has a maritime climate with cool nights and warm dry summer days.

The vineyard site ranges in elevation from 260 to 440 feet on predominantly south to southwest slopes. The soil type is Willakenzie, a silty clay loam over siltstone. The vineyard is not irrigated and is farmed sustainably to ensure that it will be environmentally and economically viable for generations to come.

The 19 acres currently in production are planted to three rootstocks and four clones. We believe this adds to the diversity of our terroir and provides us the ability to craft a distinctive wine.

The Pinot Noir Brownies are baking!

...and MonksGate Vineyard is ready to welcome you Valentine’s Day Weekend — we will again send case purchasers away with a dozen full size brownies so let us be your Valentine!

If you can’t join us but would like to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a MonksGate Pinot, just give us a call and we will get the wine on its way to you — Mother Nature permitting (e.g., above freezing for ground shipping)!

If you want to make it a special weekend, check out the Bed & Breakfasts of Yamhill County and, in particular the absolutely gorgeous Black Walnut Inn info@blackwalnut-inn.com — they usually require a two night minimum but are willing to waive that minimum for this weekend! It is a beautiful place, Karen and Neal are great people and they are releasing their second vintage (the 2008) Pinot noir on Sunday, February 13th. If we can help you with your plans, feel free to give us a call at 503.852.6521 and we look forward to seeing or hearing from you!

Saturday and Sunday, February 12th and 13th, 2011
Noon to 4:00pm

Tasting Fee $5 or $8 and keep the glass.

P.S. with increased popularity of our brownies, feel free to reserve your case of wine now to guarantee your dozen brownies!

9500 NE Oak Springs Farm Road, Carlton, Oregon
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Crowning a hillside in the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir region are the vineyards of Monks Gate. Trappist Monks from the nearby Abbey had long trod a path among the blackberry bushes and scrub oak that once covered the Willakenzie soil. Grapevines now soak up the summer sun by day and are cooled by the coastal influence at night. In developing the vineyard a gate was erected to encourage the monks to continue to enrich the landscape with their travels as the terroir enriches our wines. After experiencing the balanced fruit, rich garnet color and lingering finish of Monks Gate Pinot Noir, we hope you feel similarly enriched.