Happy New Year! We toasted early with our Compton Sparkling Brut. (When you live on a farm, you don’t usually stay up till midnight.) 2025 marks our 22nd year as a family-owned winery and our 5th year as stewards of Compton Family Farm and Vineyard. Compton wines are a reflection of the land where we grow our grapes. Living and working on our farm has allowed us to expand our practice of regenerative agriculture. For us that means conservation and rehabilitation of the land and supporting health through nutrition from beneath the soil upwards. Our practices include minimal handling in the vineyard, dry farming, cover crops, no till, no synthetics, building ecosystem diversity, and incorporating animals for adaptive grazing, non-lethal predator control, and feeding our family and yours. Thank you for enjoying and sharing our wines throughout the year and our pasture-raised eggs, lamb, and pork when they are in season. What grows together, goes together, and it’s always fun to hear what delicious dishes our club members have cooked up to pair with Compton wines.

Every growing season is different, and our minimal intervention winemaking approach allows the variations of mother nature to shine through. 2024 started out cool and developed into a warm but not too hot summer, and then cooling down again mid-September. Ripening occurred a little earlier than expected but that worked out perfectly to miss rain showers. We anticipate wonderful wines from the 2024 vintage, fruit forward with nice acidity and moderate alcohol levels – all the things we love about cool climate wines.

The excitement of new wines to bottle is matched by our enjoyment in discovering how past vintages have developed complexity while aging in bottle. Treat yourself and open and savor the older vintages we’ve included in this winter release, which have been lovingly cellared here at the winery. Paul Gregutt said it best in a recent post on his substack, NW Wine Guide: “I’d rather drink a wine a year too soon than a day too late”.

Thank you for being a part of our extended family and supporting our mission of sustaining the health of our land, community and local economy – and making delicious wines, of course. We cherish all our relationships built over years of shared labor and shared enjoyment. Raise a glass to health and happiness in 2025!

Cheers, Matt & Tabitha Compton

Chardonnay 2023 (2 and 6 Mix Clubs) NEW

Our latest Garden Series Chardonnay is lightly oaked and very delicious. Old vine 108 and Dijon clone Chardonnay was whole cluster pressed and split between our concrete egg and new French oak barrels to ferment and age, and then blended together for bottling. Full malolactic fermentation and contact on the lees during winemaking enhances the lingering creamy mouthwatering finish. 

Compton Sparkling Brut, 2019 (6 Mix Club) 90 RATING

There’s no need to wait for a special occasion to enjoy our elegant Brut. Sparkling goes with everything! Compton Brut is made with old vine Pinot Noir from Mary’s Peak Vineyard and old vine 108 clone Chardonnay from Hoot & Howl Vineyard in Philomath, Oregon, in the traditional method of sparkling wine making: a slow, elegant transformation from still wine to sparkling, all occurring inside the bottle.

Pinot Blanc, 2022 (6 Mix Club) 91 RATING
Tabitha’s favorite! Estate Pinot Blanc vines were planted in 1997 at our Compton Family Farms Vineyard in Philomath, Oregon. This Southeast facing vineyard is lower elevation and benefits from the rich soil series of the Willamette Valley. The cooler micro-climate here allows us to pick our Pinot Blanc later in the season when the flavors are full and expressive. Hot tip: let the wine warm a bit in your glass to enjoy enfolding lush notes of pear.

Llewellyn Cuvée Pinot Noir, 2018  (All Clubs) 92 RATING
It’s a special treat to open a wine that has been perfectly aged for you. Enjoy our blend of old-vine Pommard, Wädenswil and Dijon 115 pinot noir from three dry-farmed vineyards off of Llewellyn Road south of Corvallis/Philomath: Compton, Hoot & Howl, and Mary’s Peak Vineyard. These vineyards have alluvial and marine sedimentary soils which grow Pinot Noir that exhibits voluptuous and denser dark red berry and blue/black fruit with darker floral earth tones and bigger, heavier tannins. 

Mary’s Peak Vineyard Pinot Noir, 2019 (6 Mix & 6 Red Clubs)
We reserve this special small-lot wine for our wine club members and in the Tasting Room. Mary’s Peak Vineyard was planted between 1977 and 1980 to the Wädenswil clone of Pinot Noir. Situated on East-facing slopes of alluvial, sedimentary loam soil, and in the rain shadow of the highest mountain in the Oregon Coast range, Marys Peak, this dry-farmed vineyard consistently grows top quality Pinot Noir. 

Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley Blend, 2022 (2 Red Club) 90 RATING

The 2022 vintage of our popular Garden Series Pinot Noir is a blend of old vine Pinot Noir from three vineyards set in the coastal foothills in Philomath, Oregon. Fruit from each vineyard was fermented separately then aged in French oak barrels for ten months before being blended and bottled. 

BoVine Vineyard Pinot Noir, 2021 (6 Mix and 6 Red Clubs) 

This vintage of BoVine Pinot Noir has been a Tasting Room favorite, and it’s almost gone! Matt Compton planted BoVine Vineyard with Pommard and Wadenswil clones of Pinot Noir in Alpine, Oregon back in 2008. The land was formerly cow pasture and we appreciate their contributions to the soil. The 2021 growing season was just right, with warm days and cool nights ideal for our grape growing region. SU Woodhall Vineyard Pinot Noir, 2021 (6 Red Club)
The last of this special vintage goes to our 6 Red club members. Enjoy this blend of old vine Pinot Noir clones from A and C blocks at Woodhall III Vineyard in Alpine, Oregon. Matt Compton got his start in viticulture at Woodhall vineyard and this wine honors that history and the many who have helped him along his journey in winemaking.