A Pinot Noir Sequence, Day One -- Le Cadeau Vineyard

In 1997, Tom and Deb Mortimer found an uncultivated 28-acre parcel of rocky land on the south slope of Parrett Mountain in Oregon's Willamette Valley. The location was a few miles east of Newberg, in the Chehalem Mountains AVA. (Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, spent his boyhood and adolescence in Newberg, before entering Stanford Un…