It brings the team here at Audeant Wines no end of gratitude that you would be interested in the work that we are doing. Going on eight years now, we have been diligent in our pursuit of beauty and the potential of a shared understanding. We look forward to the honor of being known by you through the products of our labor.

The work is many faceted, yet transparent. We maintain absolute respect for the individual site, and are attentive and sensitive to the responses of the vines to their environment throughout the growing season. We carry the impressions of that sensitivity into the cellar during harvest, allowing them and past impressions to dictate our responses to the fruit itself, its fermentation, and the resultant wine.

As with most that is inspiring, quantities are rather finite.

In the late summer of 2015, a last minute change in plans led a couple from Chicago to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. They made an appointment at one of their favorite wineries, a bottle of which they shared on their first date. Over the course of a three and a half hour tasting, only two and a half hours longer than planned, they came to know a young winemaker there who shared his enthusiasm for the world of wine while pulling cork after cork. A mutual love of culinary and vinous experience was exchanged along with parallel perspectives about fine wine, its crafting and enjoyment. 

They left finding themselves struck with the energy and beauty of the valley, its wines, and the possibility of a life they never dreamt of. Leaning on winemaker Andrew Riechers’ relationships with farmers and vineyard owners throughout the valley, a small brand was formed around a handful of rows, in a few of the most challenging and compelling vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley. Whether older own rooted vines, or unirrigated and organically farmed at high elevation, we believe the margins are where place and time are reflected most beautifully. We venture to risk in these places and in our lives as we dare to place our goals higher than seems reasonable.