Green Options » Carlton http://greenoptions.com/tag/carlton Posts tagged 'Carlton' Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Cooperative Winemaking Goes Green http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/06/cooperative-winemaking-goes-green/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/06/cooperative-winemaking-goes-green/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:00:29 +0000 Stuart Stein http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/06/cooperative-winemaking-goes-green/ Carlton Winemakers Studio

If you build a cooperative winemaking facility, they will come. Prophetic words in winemaking circles. The only thing lacking is someone with the vision and drive to make it happen. Enter Eric Hamacher and Ned Lumpkin.

In 2000, the winemakers opened Carlton Winemakers Studio in Carlton, Oregon, a sleepy farming town in Yamhill County, southwest of Portland. The Dundee Hills of Yamhill County resemble the Burgundy region of France like no other place on the planet. A farming region for more than a century, about 30 years ago someone recognized the similarity, and Yamhill County started its slow rejuvenation from agricultural hard times to vintners’ paradise.

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