Auteur Wines

Hours: Year Round

About Us:

AUTEUR is to create profound, pure and classic wines embodying each varietal's masculine and feminine characteristics. To achieve this balance, we meticulously farm exceptional and unique vineyards in cool microclimates of coastal California and Oregon. Vineyard selection and understanding the individuality of these sites is critical to achieving true expression in our AUTEUR wines. Cool climate allows for a longer growing season to ensure optimal ripeness while maintaining natural acidity.

Ensuring vine health in combination with proper stress, intense and early crop thinning in the growing season, and slight leaf shading, create fruit of great depth and concentration. As a result, extraction is effortless and cap manipulation can be kept to a minimum to retain aromatics and nuance. Every year presents its unique set of parameters that motivate and channel our energy to create the best wine while paying respect to the characteristics of each individual vintage and the fruit that was grown.