The Lachini Family believes that the vineyard is the wine. Their goal remains to nurture their 45-acre vineyard's distinctive terroir and produce world class Pinot Noirs of prodigious quality for generations to come. Their emphasis is on the meticulous management of each vine through biodynamic farming, while combining state of the art winemaking and old world technique to handcraft wines of complexity, grace and profoundness-each one, they believe, a reflection of it's soul and unique place.

Lachini Vineyards began producing limited, ultra-premius, single vineyard Pinot Noirs with the 2001 vintage. A yearning for the old world and a passion for Pinot Noir led Ron and Marianne Lachini to Oregon in 1997; a patient pursuit to produce world-class Pinot Noir and establish a way of life for future generations. Lachini Vineyards embraces the time-honored principles of uncompromising desire for quality and long-term stewardship of the lands from which they harvest. Their commitment begins as growers of world-class grapes with a desire to have these turn into exquisite wines that bear measurement against the test of time and other leading wines of the world.

The LV Estate Vineyard is located on the backdrop of the Chehalem Mountain in the North Willamette Valley. The vineyard rises from 250-450 feet with south & southwest exposures. The Estate Vineyard is comprised of three distinct blocks identified by varying soil depths, type and clones-East (Pommard), Upper & Lower Middle (Dijon) and West (La Tache, Wadenswil, 667). Future plantings are to include more Pinot Noir and Riesling.

Lachini Vineyards is L.I.V.E. certified (Low Impact Viticulture & Enology).

Winemaker, Isabelle Dutartre, joined Lachini Vineyards with their inaugural 2001 vintage – coming on as part of a shared relationship with DePonte Cellars. Isabelle was trained in classical Burgundian Enology and Viticulture in Beaune, France and thereafter, began her winemaking career at Maison Drouhin. After 10 years, she joined their Oregon venture, Domaine Drouhin where she worked alongside her close friend Veronique Drouhin to make 5 successive vintages of world class wine.