Cameron club

Clos Electrique Chardonnay bottle line-up

Sam lets us in on one of the Willamette Valley’s best-kept secrets, with notes on a 17-year vertical of their estate-grown Chardonnay, Clos Electrique.

In February of 2023 I wrote an article on Oregon’s drc – Deep Roots Coalition. The article highlighted one of its co-founders, John Paul Cameron, explaining how he came to care so deeply about dry farming and his thoughts on why non-irrigated vineyards often result in more balanced wines. But the story wasn’t really about Cameron’s wines – it was about the coalition. Which was why I laughed out loud when a friend sent me...