Opens with wonderful pear aromas that introduces an elegant honey green apple, lingering into citrus and cucumber flavors. A true crowd pleaser.
Available online or in our Tasting Room.
168 cases produced.
*Due to the limited availability we’re restricting sales to 6 bottles per person, per transaction.
It’s that time of year again – Wine Competition Time (who knew there was a season for wine competitions) . We are happy to announce that we received the following medals so far this year.
The 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition on January 6, 2012 has set a new American wine competition record with an astounding 5,500 entries, surpassing its previous record of 5,050 last year. For nine consecutive years, this prestigious competition holds strong as the “Largest Competition of American Wines in the World.” View all winners here.
2010 Rosado de Pinot Noir – Silver Medal
2009 Rumba Pinot Noir – Bronze Medal
2009 Estate Pinot Noir – Bronze Medal
The 10th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout
The medals keep rolling in from all directions. We took all gold medals at the 10th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout in Northern California. There were more than 460 Pinot Noir wines submitted.
2009 Rumba Pinot Noir – Gold Medal
2009 Estate Pinot Noir – Gold Medal
2009 Reserve Pinot Noir – Gold Medal
We also picked up a couple of medals at the Oregon Wine, Food & Brew Festival on January 13th & 14th, 2012.
2009 Rumba Pinot Noir – Bronze Medal
2009 Estate Pinot Noir – Bronze Medal
The Portland Seafood & Wine Festival
Our 2009 Rumba Pinot Noir was the only Pinot Noir to receive a gold metal at the 7th Annual Portland Seafood and Wine Festival. Check out all the winners here.
2009 Rumba Pinot Noir – Gold Medal
2009 Estate Pinot Noir – Bronze Medal
We’re always so proud of our wine and it’s a wonderful feeling when others love it as much as we do.
I recently sent some wine to Wine Press Northwest for sampling. Not only were they highly impressed by the wine, they were intrigued by the winery. In the link below, Eric Degerman interviews Mauricio about Cuba, wine and the Eola Hills.
Enjoy!
http://media.winepressnw.com/smedia/2011/12/20/22/42/vFmus.So.16.pdf
Do you like wine? Do you like wine from states other than where you live? Have you ever had wine shipped directly to your house? Member of a wine club? Go to a small wine store to find your favorite California Syrah or Oregon Pinot Noir?
Did you know Congress is considering a bill that will STOP all of that?!?!
Please join the wine industry and wine lovers everywhere in writing YOUR congressmen asking them oppose HR 1161. This bill will take away small wineries ability to ship wine out of state. This bill will bankrupt about 83% of the wineries in the US (Only 17% have been able to find adequate distributor relationships nationwide). Don’t live in a wine region? Maybe you don’t think this applies to you, if you drink wine then you’ll be impacted – period!!!
Not only will countless people be without jobs MILLIONS will be without good wine!!!
How Does HR 1161 Threaten Wine Direct Shipping?
HR 1161 aimed to negate the significant reforms achieved through 50 years of case law, including the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Granholm vs. Heald decision, which was instrumental to increasing the number of states that allow legal, regulated winery-to-consumer shipments.
Talking points:
Courtesy of Sam Tannahill, President Oregon Winegrowers Association
As the new Operations Manager at Cubanisimo Vineyards and new to the Oregon Wine Industry, I’ve been struggling with how to articulate Oregon HB 3280. Lucky for me the Oregon Winegrowers Association did a fabulous job.
PLEASE ACT SOON – The Vote is Monday, June 27th
This is an important time for the Oregon wine industry. We, as an industry, have a chance to move forward or remain in an uncertain past while our industry continues to mature and grow.
The law permitting wineries to operate on farmland was enacted in 1989. Since then our wine industry has grown to be a major economic force for Oregon, driving $2.6 billion into the state’s economy.
We are at a point where we need to modernize our winery siting law. The law written 22 years ago is silent on what kind of commercial activities and events can occur on farmland. The legislature tried to clarify the law last year, but that was a temporary fix that will soon go away. Without new legislation, visitor activities and events may be severely restricted at many wineries.
OWA has gone through a more than year-long process to find a balanced, industry consensus on a new law. We believe the OWA has come up with a proposal that allows for creative wine marketing and business development, while preserving farmland and rural communities. This proposed new law reflects the changes that have occurred in our industry since 1989 and will help write a new chapter for Oregon wineries sited in farmland.
We believe strongly that the focus on the Oregon wine industry should be on the great wines we make and sell, and not on the events that happen at our wineries on farmland. However, we also realize that activities and events at our wineries that directly relate to the marketing of our wines and the Oregon wine industry are critically important to our future growth and success.
We have been working with Legislative leaders, the Governor’s office and other stakeholders to forge a legislative compromise that accomplishes these objectives. We are at the point where this legislative session is days away from concluding. Negotiations are done, and now is the time for the wine industry to show its support for the compromise the OWA, the Governor’s office, our state policymakers and other stakeholders have crafted through careful and thoughtful deliberation.
While we realize the compromise bill before us may not be perfect, the OWA Board believes it is a step forward and allows us to continue to work with one another on a long term solution. The HB 3280 compromise bill does the following:
• Keeps intact the two existing permitted use winery ties – first, 15 planted acres with a maximum annual production of 50,000 gallons; and second, 40 planted acres with unlimited production of wine.
• Establishes new permitted use large winery tier on 80-acre tract, with 50-planted acres on site and at least 80 additional acres off site. These large wineries are allowed full-service restaurants after additional county permitting but are otherwise subject to the same rules as smaller permitted use wineries.
• Makes clear that all permitted use wineries can market and sell wine, conduct tastings and tours, sell incidental items, host wine club activities and do other activities and events that have the primary purpose of promoting the winery.
• Allows winery to do 25 days of non-marketing events (celebratory events & facility rentals) per year. If winery chooses to do more than 25 days of events, it must go through county permitting process.
• Keeps in place, policy that winery’s incidental income is limited to 25 percent of winery’s on-site retail sales. Allows counties to request a letter from a winery’s CPA stating adherence to income limitation.
• Establishes grandfather clause that allows existing permitted wineries to continue operations. Also, continues to allow wineries to be sited under a county conditional use process.
Because there is more work to be done, this law will sunset at the end of 2013. We will continue to work with legislative leaders, Governor Kitzhaber and his Administration and our wine industry on a long-term solution to these issues.
On behalf of the OWA Board, we ask you to support this legislation, which gives us all certainty as it relates to activities and events on farmland and is the compromise that will allow this industry to continue to thrive.
We would be grateful if you’d contact your legislator immediately, asking him or her to support the HB 3280 conference committee agreement; as a vote is imminent in the House and Senate. Here are some suggested messages to send to your legislator:
• The wine industry has been working for more than a year to to modernize the winery-siting statute, with the goal of clarifying the law governing commercial activities, events and facilities at wineries.
• The bill does some important things, such as allowing wineries to sell items, and conduct activities and events that help promote our wineries and the wines we produce.
• It also puts reasonable sideboards around events that arguably go beyond marketing our wineries (e.g., wedding & facility rentals).
• We believe this legislation is a good starting point as we continue to work with state policymakers on helping the wine industry grow and prosper.
• We urge you to support HB 3280.
Please feel free to use the following form letter to contact our elected officials.
Dear XXX,
Today, the conference committee approved HB 3280. I am writing to you to urge your support of this important bill for Oregon’s growing wine industry when it comes to a vote in your chamber.
As an industry, we have worked hard to gain consensus amongst our members and we are united behind the bill that has emerged from the conference committee.
For more than a year, the wine industry has been working to modernize the winery siting rules to reflect a growing and maturing Oregon wine industry by clarifying the law governing commercial activities, events and facilities at wineries.
The wine industry today represents a $2.6 billion slice of the Oregon economy, up from $1.4 billion industry in 2004. This equates to jobs for Oregonians and revenues for all levels of government. In fact, Oregon wine-related jobs in 2010 totaled around 13,500, with related wages exceeding $382 million. The state generated more than $65 million in tax and licensing revenues in 2010. Wine-related tourism contributed $158.5 million in revenues to the Oregon economy.
Since the start of session, the wine industry has worked with legislators, the Kitzhaber Administration and stakeholders to craft a bill that allows winery activitiesand events that help promote their wines and the wine industry, while preserving farmland and preventing land use conflict.
I strongly urge you to support this conference agreement, which gives wineries more certainty as it relates to activities and events on farm land, and will allow the Oregon wine industry to continue to grow and thrive.
Sincerely,
sen.petercourtney@state.or.us;
sen.dianerosenbaum@state.or.us
sen.tedferrioli@state.or.us;
sen.jackiedingfelder@state.or.us;
sen.jackiewinters@state.or.us;
sen.floydprozanski@state.or.us;
sen.markhass@state.or.us;
sen.chuckthomsen@state.or.us;
sen.alanolsen@state.or.us;
sen.brianboquist@state.or.us;
sen.fredgirod@state.or.us;
rep.brianclem@state.or.us;
rep.brucehanna@state.or.us;
rep.arnieroblan@state.or.us;
rep.bobjenson@state.or.us;
rep.markjohnson@state.or.us;
rep.jeancowan@state.or.us;
rep.deborahboone@state.or.us;
rep.mikeschaufler@state.or.us;
rep.sherriesprenger@state.or.us;
rep.paulholvey@state.or.us;
rep.salesquivel@state.or.us;
rep.davehunt@state.or.us;
rep.kevincameron@state.or.us;
rep.AndyOlson@state.or.us;
rep.tinakotek@state.or.us;
rep.mattwingard@state.or.us;
rep.jimthompson@state.or.us;
rep.kimthatcher@state.or.us;
rep.jimweidner@state.or.us
2010 Pinot Gris - Soft and round aromas of tropical fruit and melon followed by peach flavors on the front of the palate giving way to lively acidity and a long lingering finish. Crisp, light and flavorful.
2010 Rosado de Pinot Noir – This wine is made from 100% Estate grown Pinot Noir grapes. The skins are removed earlier in the wine making process leaving a beautiful blush wine. Reminiscent of a dry white wine, fruity and tart. Refreshingly perfect for the warm summer days.
Make sure to order early for your summer parties, we’ll won’t be able to ship using the more economical ground method for much longer.
Much too often we have visitors come to our wine tasting room, or we talk to them at wine festivals, and they seem worried about their capacity to fully describe how they appreciate our wines. Sometimes, they seem to be intimidated about not having the right words in describing the wines they taste. To all these folks I say emphatically, “Remember the most important aspect about wines is that they are to be enjoyed, not analyzed.” With time, as you taste enough different wines you will learn to appreciate the different wine components such as aroma, the different flavors, the mouth feel, and the aftertaste sensations. Who knows, some of you may get to the point of waxing poetically about wine at some point, but this is not necessary to enjoy wine.
Remember, never let yourself be intimidated by others experience, taste comments, or judgments about a given wine. Anyone who sets themselves as an arbiter of a wines quality and value, is an impostor. Those who believe them cheat themselves, and are self deceiving.
The enjoyment of wine is very personal. It is a fact that smells, and taste judgment varies between us all. This variation is based on genetics, cultural, and historical traditions as we grow up, and acquired wisdom. Wine creates aromatic, tactile, and flavor impressions that produce an emotion in each of us, and this is enriched by the memory of similar previous emotions. Therefore, trust yourself, and enjoy.
Be aware that wine is the result of the fragile union of Nature’s genius, and man’s creativity. Occasionally, under certain circumstances, the result of this fragile union is a magical, mystical, and unrepeatable wine experience. So live, fully, enjoy life intensely, and drink plenty of Cubanisimo wines!!!!!
Add to your luxurious experience with a bottle of Cubanisimo Vineyards wine when you board a Caribbean cruise with Oceania Cruises. Our wines are featured prominently in the Grand Dining Room of the new ship, the Marina, and they are available to for you to order with dinner.
I just received an email from a loyal Cuban customer of ours named Jorge Ponce (pictured above on the left). He wanted to let us know that he couldn’t rest until he provided feedback on our wines at the popular Cuban website, Babalú Blog. There was a initial post about a recent article that appeared in El Nuevo Herald about Cubanisimo Vineyards. There was then a couple comments that were critical of our wines. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I am bothered when people make judgments without remembering that taste is subjective. Fortunately for us, we had Jorge Ponce come to our rescue.
Here’s what he said:
Jorge Ponce February 6th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
As a proud Cuban-American, I always go out of my way to help out “my gente”. Reading Mauricio Collada’s story, I was touched not only because of his achievements as a neurosurgeon, but his ability to do something totally different than what he does professionally. I’ve grown to be cautious of one-track minded people, and to enjoy the company of those who have multiple hobbies. They are just much more fun to be around. In addition, Mauricio’s winemaking business employs his wife and daughter. There is nothing more wonderful and honorable than providing employment to your loved ones. I have tried Cubanisimo wines repeatedly in the past, and I found them to be outstanding – especially the Pinot Noir. My wine-connoisseur friends, who are not Cuban, have been just as impressed by these wines as I have. Daughter Cristina Collada also has provided outstanding customer service when arranging the shipment of the wines to Virginia. I am so impressed by the Collada enterprise that I wear the shirt with the Cubanisimo logo to all kinds of social events. This way, I market the wines and show the world that, when everything is said and done, I am a proud Cubanisimo. To order your Cubanisimo wines, go to http://www.cubanisimovineyards.com/
You can read the original post here.
The kind, encouraging comments from so many has been very moving, especially since the recent article about us in El Nuevo Herald. It makes me proud to be part of an endeavor with Cubanisimo Vineyards, and our wines that not only enhances life’s precious moments, but also arouses so much pride in my fellow Cuban Americans. My goal will always be to make the best possible wines from our Oregon vineyards, and to continue to present our wines alongside with celebration of the Cuban culture. We have been blessed to be able to succeed in this great land, the U.S.A., that has adopted us, and which we now call home, yet will always celebrate our ethnic pride.
Many have inquired with interest in supporting us, and acquiring our wines, and I would like to make sure you visit the different sections of our web site. Under “Wines” you can look at the section “Find our wines” to see where the wines are being sold in the states where we have distribution. You can always use the internet order form for us to ship you the wines directly to states where this is allowed. Finally, we encourage you to become “Amigos de Cubanisimo Club Members” to receive periodic shipments, and get discounts on wines along with other perks.
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