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Arterberry Maresh and Tan Fruit

Highly-rated Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

from the Dundee Hills

Wines that reflect the heritage of three generations of farming in Oregon since 1959

The Maresh family has had a long and memorable presence in the Dundee Hills. In 1980 Jim and Loie’s daughter, Martha, married Fred Arterberry, Jr. who was one of the first winemakers in Oregon to have a degree in fermentation science from the University of California at Davis, and one of the early pioneer winemakers in the 1970s producing many highly-acclaimed wines from the Maresh Vineyard.

Martha and Fred’s son, Jim Arterberry Maresh, has a strong connection to and appreciation of the Red Hills of Dundee. He knows the vineyards, the neighbors and the various seasons and vintages that challenge and reward each grape grower and winemaker. His is a deep history of family, farming and winemaking.

"Tan Fruit is a brand-new project with some of the most exciting Chardonnays in the Willamette Valley today. Much of the fruit for the Arterberry Maresh wines are sourced from older estate vines, and very few cases are made each year. In 2019, Maresh founded Tan Fruit, for which he will purchase fruit. "I hear about fruit for sale that I'd love to play with," he explains. "It doesn't work for Arterberry, but for Tan Fruit, there are no rules." He made six cuvées this initial vintage, and unsurprisingly, they are some of the best Chardonnays of 2019…I hope to be first to sign up for this mailing list" - Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate

2019 Tan Fruit Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard

$59.99/750ml - Buy Now

35 Bottles In Stock

97 WA

The 2019 Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard comes from Dijon clones planted in 1991, and it was matured in about 35% new oak. This vintage is pure and tensile, with scents of tarragon and fragrant herbs, beeswax and almonds, with plush white peach fruit. The palate combines intense ripe fruit with a spine of tangy, tense acidity, and it finishes with tremendous length. Allow it another 3-5 years in bottle. Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate

2019 Tan Fruit Chardonnay Oak Grove Vineyard

$59.99/750ml - Buy Now

4 Bottles In Stock

98 WA

The 2019 Chardonnay Oak Grove Vineyard has a unique personality that combines powerful exotic fruit with tangy energy and a shimmery saline quality, derived from a year's maturation in barrel and then stainless steel. Guava, peaches, lilac and beeswax aromas burst from the glass, and the textural palate, which continues to change and evolve as it spends time in the glass, demands your attention with its rich but precise fruit. This unabashedly hedonistic Chardonnay has the intensity and energy to age well, but that youthful, gregarious fruit is hard to resist! Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate

2019 Tan Fruit Chardonnay Vojtilla Vineyard

$59.99/750ml - Buy Now

36 Bottles In Stock

97 WA

Vojtilla is a small, four-acre vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains that sits at around 500 to 600 feet in elevation and, says Jim Maresh, is influenced by the nearby Willamette River. Harvested in October this vintage, the 2019 Chardonnay Vojtilla Vineyard comes from Dijon clone vines planted in 1991, and it was matured in about 25% new Damy barrels. It has a stunning perfume of quince paste and mushrooms, pastry and flowers, and the palate is satiny, plush and pure, with a seamless tangy streak and long, powerful finish. Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate

2019 Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir Dundee Hills

$32.89/750ml - Buy Now

10 Bottles In Stock

94 WA

The 2019 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills is ethereal and perfumed this vintage. It offers pure scents of raspberry preserves, bergamot, tangerine and Angostura with wafts of sweet balsamic. The palate is soft, bright and super silky, with layer after layer of sweet fruit, spice and citrus, and it finishes long and perfumed.--Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate

2019 Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir Old Vines

$58.89/750ml Buy Now

9 Bottles In Stock

97+ WA / 95 VM

The 2019 Pinot Noir Old Vines comes from Wadenswil clone vines planted in 1970, and it was matured in barrel for 20 months. Medium garnet, it has a distinct mineral character, with tones of flint and iodine complementing spicy cranberry and blackberry preserves. The palate is silky and layered, with intense, dark red fruit and a very long, flavorful finish. It's got some inherent power that will allow it to develop well in bottle.--Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate

Vivid ruby-red. A complex, sharply focused bouquet evokes fresh raspberry, boysenberry and Asian spices, along with a sexy floral nuance that gains strength with aeration. Sweet, seamless and incisive on the palate, displaying a deft blend of heft and focus to the concentrated red and blue fruit, floral pastille and spicecake flavors. Shows noteworthy energy on a subtly tannic, penetrating finish that hangs on with superb, floral-driven tenacity. For this vintage, the fruit for this bottling came entirely from the Maresh vineyard.—Josh Raynolds, Vinous Media

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