Our History
The Story family founded the Heritage Estate in 2003. Through a combination of care and toil, we’ve slowly grown into one of the largest contiguous vineyards in the Willamette valley.
We carefully tend each vine to create our award-winning wines with an authentic sense of place. At Heritage we put all of our love into the land. In the early years we focused on vineyard development and landscaping.
January 2003
Story Estate is purchased
In January 2003 the Story estate is purchased as unplanted acerage.
April 2003
First Pinot Noir is planted
In April 2003 we planted our first pinot noir clones from our sister vineyard in Bordeaux, France.
October 2004
Our first test harvest
We pull our first grapes and produce our first testing batch from the vines.
June 2007
Selling our first bottle
All great things take time and in June 2007, four years after planting our first clones we began selling our wines.
January 2010
Gold at Decanter World Awards
In January of 2010 our hard work paid off with a gold medal at the Decanter awards in France.
February 2016
Next generation
In 2016 the second generation step in to take over daily operations with out three daughters running the show.