Due to current covid related closures we have suspended all in-person tastings for the time being. We look forward to hosting you at our new tasting room and winery in early 2021.
In the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out for more information on upcoming virtual tastings as well as scheduling private virtual events. Please email us at info@nicolas-jay.com for more information.
We look forward to seeing you in person again in the near future. Thank you!
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Thank you to Wine Spectator for your recent review!
Thank you to Wine Spectator for featuring our Pinot Noir from the beautiful Nysa Vineyard. This special site in the Dundee Hills in the Willamette Valley is own-rooted and is one of the three single vineyard designates we make at Nicolas-Jay.
We put a lot of care, thought and work into each vintage and the 2017 was no exception. That's why we're always grateful to be recognized!
Wine Spectator just recognized 5 of our 2017 wines at 93 points or above calling them, "impeccably structured and refined" and "elegantly complex and expressive." Our winemaking team loved working on the 2017 vintage; a cooler year that expressed itself through a restraint and elegance that is just coming into blossom now. Thank you to our winemaking team for making this happen and to Wine Spectator for your recognition!
'Oregon Finally Has a White Wine to Call Its Own'
Oregon’s Willamette Valley is synonymous with pinot noir, but a signature white wine has always remained elusive for the region. However, a new grape is emerging—or re-emerging—and bringing new energy to a global favorite.
'6 of the Best Wineries in Oregon's Willamette Valley' from Afar Magazine
The Burgundy region of France is pinot noir’s ancestral home, where the grape variety has been meticulously cultivated for millennia by monks, dukes, and some of the most iconic domaines in the wine world. In recent decades, Burgundy producers have looked to invest in overseas projects, with several settling on the Willamette Valley. Nicolas-Jay is a more recent addition to that story, with its first vintage debuting in 2014. The Dundee-based winery is a collaboration between Burgundy luminary Jean-Nicolas Méo, winemaker and proprietor at Domaine Méo-Camuzet, and U.S. music executive Jay Boberg, who both lend their name to the label. Their efforts have overtaken the former Bishop Creek Vineyard, where winery visits for intimate, guided tasting sessions are available by appointment only.
What to Drink: Sip reputable wines like Momtazi pinot noir, a structured, cellarable wine with broodingly dark, earthen berry flavors adhering to Méo’s style in France.
A New Home in the Dundee Hills
"Nicolas-Jay is putting down roots. After five harvests in the Willamette Valley, Jean-Nicolas Méo and partner Jay Boberg have purchased their own pied à terre in a cozy corner of the northern Dundee Hills."
Josh Raynolds of Vinous recently covered the 2017 vintage in the Willamette Valley, praising it as a vintage of richness. Nicolas Jay was proud to be among the wineries reviewed.
Hopewell Vineyard in the Times
Nicolas Jay is proud to source Pinot Noir from the 80-acre Hope Well Vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills, planted in 2008 to 20-acres of vines, which overlook the Willamette Valley on rich, volcanic soils.
Jay and Jean-Nicolas sit down to talk Nicolas-Jay and more with The Extract, a video series dedicated to wine geeks and cork dorks from novice to expert.
"Very Fine" Pinot Noir: Jamie Goode visits Nicolas-Jay
Wineanorak's Jamie Goode stopped by the Dundee house in July for a tasting with Jean-Nicolas and Jay
Food and Wine's Jonathan Cristaldi has named Nicolas-Jay one of the 26 wineries to visit in Oregon and Washington!
Jean-Nicolas Wine Searcher Interview
"To truly understand Pinot Noir, one has to work every day with it. Given that, Jean-Nicolas Méo certainly has greater insight into this unpredictable varietal than almost anyone else today." Nicolas-Jay proprietor Jean-Nicolas is interviewed in Wine Searcher.
Nicolas Jay Decanter Producer Profile
Matthew Luczy visits the Oregon domaine, a coming together of music mogil and Burgundian winemaker...
The Best Pinots in Oregon: James Suckling Reviews the 2017 Vintage
This summer, James Suckling's Oregon critic Nick Stock returned to the Willamette Valley, this time to taste and review the 2017 wines. He found the wines "delivered a strong unified impression of rich flavors, structure and balance."
Nicolas Jay was among the highest scored wines tasted.
Our own Tracy Kendall had the opportunity to talk with Forbes.com and explain the Nicolas Jay project, and what it means to make Pinot in Oregon.
Words from Jean-Nicolas on "own-rootedness" and a new Nicolas-Jay Pinot Noir
Telegraph: Best Red Wines for Christmas
The forthcoming 2017 Willamette Valley was recently featured as a holiday wine idea in the Telegraph.
Small Production, Low Intervention: Nicolas Jay and Slow Wine in Oregon
Nicolas Jay is one of 50 wineries to appear in the first even Slow Wine Guide for Oregon!
Jay was featured earlier this year in World of Fine Wine, in an article by Master of Wine Anne Krebiehl on "Pinot Noir Vignettes"
Nicolas Jay Featured in Wine Spectator
In a feature covering the influence of Burgundy in Oregon, Nicolas Jay's 2016 Willamette Valley received 94 Points from Wine Spectator. Jay, Jean-Nicolas and Tracy received a full-page article, featured below...
