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Matzinger-Davies Wine Company 2019 Gorgeous Grenache
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Anna Matzinger is co-owner and winemaker for the Matzinger Davies Wine Company, a small family brand founded in 2006 with her Kiwi husband Michael Davies (REX HILL, A to Z), specializing in small lot Pinot noir and Chardonnay from the north Willamette Valley and single site Sauvignon Blanc and Grenache from the Columbia River Gorge. Arriving to Oregon’s Willamette Valley for the harvest of 1999 from Idaho by way of California, Australia and New Zealand with the hopes of making some of the world’s finest Pinot noir, Anna’s path led to a 14-year stretch at Archery Summit where she rose to winemaker and general manager, garnering numerous accolades and helping steward and nurture both winery and brand in their growth and distinction as a producer of world class wines. In 2014 Anna began consulting for several Oregon wineries and deeply enjoys the pursuit of helping to bring voice to client’s wines through connecting site and process with the people who make them.

Cellar 503 Tasting Notes
Matzinger-Davies Wine Company, McMinnville, Oregon
2019 Gorgeous Grenache
Liminal Liquid Frontier of Flowers and Fruit Newtonian Fig
Our Grenache comes from Garnier Vineyard just east of the town of Mosier, Oregon on the banks of the mighty Columbia River in the Columbia Gorge AVA. Wrought by the work of this region’s dramatic geologic history, the soil here is a shallow sandy loam with basalt protrusions and produces lively, energetic wines that are as distinctive and dramatic as the environs.
TASTING NOTES:
The Gorgeous Grenache is affable and juicy, playful and plum with perfumed flowers and spice so nice like violets and lilac, fenugreek, allspice and gingersnaps. Fennel is here and fruity molasses, an earth tone like rain on granite and the inviting echo of fig newtons. The palate is unctuous and energetic with a joyful juiciness that amplifies its sublimity and song.
A Cellar 503 selection in March 2026, 2026 Women in Wine Columbia Gorge | Grenache
