McMinnville native Remy Drabkin knew she wanted to be a winemaker at 8 years old.  By 14 she was working her first grape harvest and by 17, with three harvests under her belt, she was studying winemaking abroad. Remy’s Old World Style philosophy developed under the guidance of Oregon wine industry pioneers and was informed by the Italian families around which she was raised.  Her eponymous Remy Wines and Three Wives Wines started in 2006, baR (pronounced R bar) opened in 2011 and in 2017 she opened her second location at the family’s Lone Madrone Vineyard in the Dundee Hills. 

REMY IN THE NEWS

From Departures: World’s Best Women Led Wine Regions

From Wine Enthusiast: The Rise of Italian Grapes in American Vineyards

From Oregon Wine Press: Equity in Action: Inaugural TASTE PDX Makes a Statement

From Oregon Wine Press: Opera & Wine: A Classic, Dramatic Duet

From Travel Salem: A guide to LGBTQ travel in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

From Wine Press Northwest: Oregon brings Italian wines to the table

From Travel Oregon: Celebrate these Women Makers of Oregon

From Food & Wine: Remy featured in Bertony Faustin’s documentary about minority winemakers in Oregon

MEDP Spark: Celebrating Women in McMinnville’s Trade Sectors

From Seattle Times: What’s new, what’s novel in Oregon’s Willamette Valley winecountry

From the Oregon Wine Press: Dessert Wine Cellar Selects

REMY AT THE MOVIES

By producing elegant and complex Italian varietals grown in the Pacific Northwest, Remy Wines has earned a reputation as a top producer of non-traditional grape varieties. Since 2006, Remy has chosen to focus on Lagrein, Dolcetto, Sangiovese, and Barbera.

Three Wives: Wines without Rules! Three Wives wines are delicious, every day drinking wines. Remy’s “playground,” the wine varieties vary with each vintage but the quality of the wine never does. The name comes from a story of mistaken identity on an Alaskan fishing trip, check out Three Wives the Movie to learn the tale!