It’s not surprising that wine lovers often become winemakers. Sometimes it’s just inevitable. One of the bigger challenges in starting a label is coming up with the name. Wine lover and winemaker and owner David Ulbricht gave his winery one of the most unique names we’ve heard. Schönetal Cellars. For our readers the name is pronounced SCH.U.NA.TAL. That’s how it appears on the website. We originally met David in 2018 at the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Auction and now we catch up with him at his shared tasting room in McMinnville. It’s a bit noisy in the background, as usual this is a working winery, but our chat with Dave shows how a nice guy can finish first.
You can also hear Dave on our Vino
Lingo segment defining his own wine term “Pretty, Pretty”.
Francis Ford Coppola is well known for
wineries in Napa and Sonoma and not so long ago he expanded to
Oregon. Domaine de Broglie sits in the Dundee Hills above the
Willamette Valley offering exceptional estate wines. Dave Petterson
is Winemaker dand General Manager and we met up with him at the
tasting room a few weeks ago. The tasting room alone is worth the
trip but of course the wines are the stars.. Oregon wine stands with
some of the finest wines in the world and Dave will tell you why.
You can also hear Dave on our Vino
Lingo segment defining the term “Double Dry”
