Twenty-two years ago, Betz Family Winery was founded with a basic tenet: search ceaselessly for the highest quality vineyard sites, pay attention to every detail in the vineyard, then give time in the cellar for slow evolution of each parcel’s unique characteristics. The French have a saying for this emphasis on vineyard as the primary engine of wine quality and character, “Sous Nous,” which means “under us.” Robert Betz believes that the soul of his wine is not in the cellar… it’s under us in the jumbled mixture of soil and vine. This quest for unique expressions of site and variety, or “Sous Nous” has taken him through the best plantings of Cabernet, Merlot, Syrah and Grenache across Washington. It brought him to impossibly old, dry-farmed bush vines of Chenin Blanc in South Africa. And now, it has led him to a new and perhaps inevitable destination: limited-production bottlings of Pinot Noir from exceptional single vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

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