| Oregon wine country would be a drastically different | | | | elegant wine that is so typical of wine from Burgundy |
| place without David Lett. In 1967 Lett and his wife | | | | and the great Bordeaux's. |
| bought a 20 acre farm which would soon become | | | | Having graduated form the preeminent viniculture |
| Eyrie Vineyards and proceeded to replace the prune | | | | culture in the world, the University of California at |
| farm with a combination of European grapes. David | | | | Davis and having spent significant time in France |
| thought that the more challenging growing conditions | | | | David Lett had a unique appreciation for terrior and |
| in Oregon would lead to wines with more finesse and | | | | the greatness that can be found in wines grown in |
| complexity then was typically found in other new | | | | less than ideal ripening conditions. |
| world producers in California, Chile and Australia. | | | | He planted a series of grapes that are known to do |
| He thought, much like the French chateau owners | | | | well in cooler climates such as the aforementioned |
| that grapes grown in ideal conditions could never | | | | Pinot Noir, Riesling, Pinot Gris and a few others. |
| have to work to ripen and achieve the type of | | | | |