Amity Vineyards is the founding estate of the Eola-Amity Hills. Our vines were planted in 1971 on a south-facing slope above the town of Amity, where Pacific winds funnel through the Van Duzer corridor and meet warm afternoon sun. In 1974, the legendary Myron Redford founded the winery, and in 1976 the first wines were bottled. Five decades later, we still farm the same hillside the same way. Newer plantings have come up alongside the originals.
The vineyard takes its name from the town below. The town takes its name from friendship: built on honesty, humility, and time.
Every wine we make begins with the site and ends with the glass. What happens in between is restraint: careful farming, gentle handling, and a refusal to add anything that doesn't sharpen the line between ground and wine.
The vines went in the ground in 1971. The winery began it's foundation in 1974. Myron Redford came to the Eola-Amity Hills with questions, not answers. He was a winemaker more interested in what the site could do than in what he could do to it. That curiosity produced Oregon's first organically grown, sulfite-free wines, and it helped put the Eola-Amity Hills on the map as one of the Willamette Valley's most distinctive growing regions.
What began as fifteen acres of Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Pinot Blanc became one of Oregon's founding wineries. It is also the oldest continuously farmed estate in the AVA that bears its name.
Ryan and Eric Harms brought Amity Vineyards into the Union Wine Company family in 2014. They didn't come to reinvent the place. They came because the wines already had what they admired: transparency, a clear sense of place, and a quiet kind of power. In 2014, Ryan and Eric Harms took on the work, drawn by the wines and the way they were being made. They didn't come to reinvent the place. They came because the wines already had what they admired, and because the hillside had earned the way it was being farmed.
The philosophy hasn't changed. With vines this old, soils this ancient, and the Van Duzer corridor doing the cooling, less has always been more. We farm sustainably and pick for freshness. If a move doesn't sharpen the wine, we don't make it.
Amity Vineyard sits above the town of Amity on a south-facing slope. Across twenty-six acres, we grow Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Chardonnay, and Pinot Gris in Witzel and Ritner soils. The soils are volcanic in origin, and they vary in depth and composition as the land climbs from 470 to nearly 900 feet. Many of our vines are own-rooted and over fifty years old, with roots that have worked their way through thin topsoil into nutrient-sparse earth below. Newer rows, planted in recent years, are filling in around them.
The Eola-Amity Hills run cool, then warm, then cool again. Pacific air pours through the Van Duzer corridor fifty miles to the west, meets warm afternoon sun, and drops temperatures fast in the evening. That swing of sun, wind, and falling thermometers is the engine of everything we grow.
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The core of the program. The Eola-Amity Hills Pinot Noir is grown, made, and bottled within the appellation. The White Pinot Noir sources Pinot Noir from across the broader Willamette Valley and vinifies it as a white, an experiment from the founding era that stayed.
Wines from specific sites across the Eola-Amity Hills, including our own estate.
Small lots and limited bottlings. Some date to Myron's time; others are newer.
Amity Vineyards wines are poured at restaurants and carried by wine shops and grocery stores across the country. Enter your zip code below to find a bottle near you.
You can also order Amity wines directly from us. Browse the full portfolio, including small lots not always in market.
Shop NowAmity Vineyards Wine Club
Twice a year we put together a carefully chosen selection of Amity wines and send them to the people who have decided to trust us. We choose the bottles. You choose how you drink them.
How it Works
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Join and tell us your preference
Sign up below and let us know whether you prefer red, white, or a mix. That's the only decision you need to make.
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We curate your shipment
Each spring and fall, our winemakers select the wines going into your box — single-vineyard Pinot Noirs, whites, and the occasional limited release.
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Your wine arrives
We ship in May and October. You'll hear from us 4 to 6 weeks before each shipment with a preview of what's coming and what you'll pay.
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