Teutonic name "wine company of the month"
by Bi-Rite Market in San Francisco
"We love the Tuttle's approach to winemaking. They are heavily influenced by the great wines of Germany, Austria, and the Alsace."
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The Feiring Line reviews Teutonic's 2011 Riesling
Teutonic's Pinot Gris makes San Francisco Chronicle's
Top 100 Wines of 2012
SFGate | December 2012
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Wine Pick: Teutonic Wine Co.'s Willamette Valley Silvaner
Oregon Live, Food Day | October 2012
2011 Teutonic Wine Co. "David Hill Vineyard" Willamette Valley Silvaner ($22): When I visited Germany with my family recently, I was delighted to find the obscure white varietal silvaner to be a light, herbaceous and readily available alternative to the usual aperitif options. Alas, it's quite difficult to find good silvaner in the U.S. ... until now, right here in Oregon. Kudos to Olga and Barnaby Tuttle of Teutonic Wine Co. for sniffing out the historic silvaner vines (Alsatian wine buffs Charles and Shirley Coury planted them in the mid-1960s) at David Hill Vineyard and bottling the juice on its own rather than throwing it into a blend, as previous vintners have done. The finished wine is just 10.5 percent alcohol by volume, with a delicious salinity. Drink in its notes of fresh fennel and lime peel before dinner or serve it alongside fish or an herbaceous salad. Your local merchant can find it through PDX Wines.
— Katherine Cole
Teutonic Wine Company, Pinot Noir, "Bergspitze," 2010
Wine Thumb | September 2012
Bergspitze means mountain top in German and this particular mountain is Bald Peak where their Laurel vineyard is located. Bald Peak is 1,250 feet high, making it the apex of Oregon vineyard sites. Not only are they the first to plant that high in Oregon they also have the only coast range vineyard in the state, 20 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
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Imagine Chloe Sevigny in lederhosen...
Oregon Uncorked | May 2012
The grandson of a prominent Portland smoke-shop owner and the son of a well-known local television correspondent, Barnaby Tuttle comes from strong genetic stock. But it was his stepmother, Evelyn Franz, who gave Tuttle the wine bug. For close to two decades, young Barnaby worked his way up through the ranks at Franz's Papa Haydn restaurants, ending up as General Manager and Wine Director. Today, Barnaby and wife Olga are evangelists for Alpine-style winemaking: Their feather-light pinot noir (think 11.5% ABV), blanc, silvaner, chasselas and riesling make one want to run through the hills singing "Edelweiss." And did we mention they import unknown family labels from the Mosel? Yes, they're that cool.
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Barnaby and Olga Tuttle of Teutonic Wine Co.changing the way we think about Oregon wine
January 2012
If you import antique glass bottles from Germany for your Oregon wine, if you find one single 46-year-old row of chasselas vines growing in Forest Grove and vinify it, if you plant your own vineyard just 22 miles from the ocean in a freezing-cold, high-elevation site that may or may not ripen, you might be completely nuts.
Or, you might just be Barnaby and Olga Tuttle. The rules of the wine game are changing, and in Oregon, the Tuttles are at the forefront of the new guard. Where the old buzzword was "big," as in oak and alcohol, it's now all about "small"—low pH, low alcohol and low brix (a ripeness measure) at harvest. Where the cool 2007 vintage was viewed in some quarters as disastrous, the cooler 2010 and 2011 vintages are triumphs-in-the making.
That's because the Tuttle way of thinking is taking hold.
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