Source: Teutonic Wine Co.
TEUTONIC WINE CO.
Asla, Oregon
It all started in 2002 when Barnaby was the wine buyer at Papa Haydn Restaurant in Portland's southeast location. German wine importer Ewald Moseler, showed him 14 different Rieslings from Germany's famed Mosel wine region. Barnaby bought all 14 and started one of the largest German wine lists in Portland. That same night he told his wife, Olga, that he needed to learn how to make wines that are as expressive to terroir as these Rieslings.
Because we love the wines from the Mosel Valley so much, we began traveling there every summer and met some local producers who make superb Rieslings. Barnaby, being tenacious as he is, asked many questions and was able to learn and emulate many of their techniques for making Riesling. Even though Oregon's soil type(s) is nothing close to ones in the Mosel Valley, our wines are similar in style. When we pour our wines for our German winemaker friends, they nod their heads and smile. That right there tells us we're doing something right!