About Us
Our Story
In 2012 La Dolce Vita was acquired by the Hildebrandt family, who have lived and worked in Oregon for over 60 years. Activity initially focused on the vineyard, with investments in equipment and farming practices to create outstanding pinot noir and pinot gris fruit. More recently plans were put in place to offer an estate pinot noir wine "ESANDE", made exclusively with La Dolce Vita Vineyard‘s blend of 115 and 777 French clone fruit. This new offering is extremely limited, and has turned out to be another fantastic representation of Pinot Noir, with fruit grown and wine made in Oregon! Our 2018, 2019 and 2020 vintages of ESANDE are sold out, but the 2021 may have some limited availability.
Sign up on our Club ESANDE waiting list to get access to these wines!
Our Vineyard
La Dolce Vita Vineyards is an 11 acre, sustainable Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris Vineyard located in the beautiful Tualatin Hills AVA portion of Oregon's fertile Willamette Valley. The Vineyard was originally planted in 1996, with rows facing south/southeast. The dominant soil type throughout the Vineyard is Melbourne, which is formed from sedimentary rock. In addition, some volcanic seams are present in the higher elevations. Pinot Noir clones include 115, 777 and Pommard. Our goal at La Dolce Vita Vineyards is very simple, to produce the finest quality grapes for Oregons robust wine industry, including our own ESANDE wines. Past customers for our fruit include, Elk Cove Vineyards and Pike Road Wines, Torii Mor Winery, White Rose Estates, J. Rallison Cellars, Devona Winery, Dundee Wine Library and Ponzi Vineyards. Check us out on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter below!
Our La Dolce Vita "ESANDE" Wines
Since 2012, La Dolce Vita has sold 100% of its fruit to area wineries. A number of these wineries produced wines made exclusively with our La Dolce Vita fruit (single vineyard designated), including White Rose Estate, Guillen Family, Dundee Wine Library and J. Rallison Cellars. An additional commercially available Magnum bottling offered from Devona was released using 100% LDV Pinot Noir fruit from the fantastic 2016 vintage. In total LDV has had over 20 commercial bottlings of 100% vineyard fruit made by these wineries, with more planned in the future. Beginning with the 2018 vintage, La Dolce Vita initiated an offering of its own flagship "ESANDE" Pinot Noir wine, made exclusively from our estate fruit. While the 2018, 2019 and 2020 ESANDE wines are sold out, we currently have a few bottles of the 2021 available. This extremely limited production of our "white label" Pinot Noir wine is available only through Club ESANDE. Future vintages are planned to be offered for sale through Club ESANDE as well. Sign up on our waiting list by sending us an email at info@ladolcevitavineyards.com!
In addition to our available club wines, the Meridian Restaurant in Pacific City exclusively offers an ESANDE Reserve Pinot Noir, an ESANDE White Pinot Noir and an ESANDE Pinot Noir based Sparkling Rose!