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HEARTS DELIGHT Q&A
Q: What movie title best describes your life?
A: Tie between "As Good as it Gets" and "While you were sleeping"
Q: If you could ask your pet one question, what would it be?
A: What his fave thing to eat really is...(he's a Lab - it's hard to tell ;)
Q: When you're having a bad day, what do you do to make yourself feel better?
A: Champagne. Champagne. Champagne.
Division Winemaking Company
Kate Norris
Portland, Oregon
Featured: Wednesday, March 6th at the Congress Has Heart Reception
Division Winemaking Company is a Portland, Oregon based winery founded in 2010 by Kate Norris and Thomas Monroe. Inspired by the wineries of Loire, Beaujolais, Burgundy and the Northern Rhone where they first learned winemaking and viticulture, the urban winery creates Oregon and Washington wines including Pinot Noir, Gamay, Chardonnay, Rose, Chenin, Riesling, Cabernet Franc, Cot, Syrah, Grenache, and Sauvignon Blanc. Determined to make approachable and balanced wines though minimal manipulation, the winemakers have a passion to work with well farmed terroir expressive vineyards, many of which are organic and/or Biodynamic®, celebrating the varietals the winemakers love to drink.
Division Winemaking Company includes the flagship Division label, the more approachable Division-Villages label, the Gamine brand inspired by the Rhone Valley and a personal expression of co-founder Kate Norris’ love of the region, as well as the experimental Tripod Project label, a collaboration between co-winemaker Tom Monroe, Barnaby Tuttle of Teutonic Wine and Jesse Skiles of Fausse Piste. Division Winemaking Company is also a member of the PDX Urban Wineries Association.
Division Winemaking Company represents a new generation of winemakers that are looking beyond the status quo to create unique styles of wine, with a purpose, a story and without barriers. Kate and Tom were named to the 2016 Wine Enthusiast’s 40 Under 40 list, mentioned as winemakers to watch in the San Francisco Chronicle article, All you wanted to know about this year’s Winemakers to Watch, and the New York Times’ Eric Asimov listed Division Winemaking Company among the Willamette Valley’s excellent small producers of Pinot Noir.