For a data point, I tasted at Antica Terra for the first time about a month ago (first time trying it and it was excellent) and bought one each of the 2021 Antikythera and 2021 Botanica. Price was $240 and $175 respectively.
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I remember when my winemaker friend was b-ing about the Chard being $125 just 5 years ago - âthatâs the most expensive Chard Iâve ever seenâ. Imagine what heâs saying today. 
Summer offering for this year is live. Slight increase:
2023 chardonnay Aequorin | 750ml *$220 (up $10 from last year) - 509 cases produced
2023 pinot noir Antikythera | 750ml *$270 (up $15 from last year) - 596 cases produced
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Appears the Protege has surpassed the Master.
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I feel like the frog being slowly boiled with these increases⊠would love some thoughts as Iâm weighing the allocation. Iâve read the historical commentary, but every year the relative value v-a-v Burgundy and the rest of Oregon gets more and more difficult
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I think the pricing is crazy compared to how the top Oregon (and CA) Pinots are priced.
Burgundy grand crus are higher, most top premier crus are lowerâŠand they have a track record for aging. I donât compare them to CA cab pricing, since I donât drink cab and those prices have been absurd for years.
Regardless of whether the wines are really excellent, I have a negative reaction towards ridiculous pricing as a marketing strategy.
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Itâs only a matter of time before âstrategiesâ like this backfire in my opnion⊠There is only so much consumers will pay for a products and this is outrageous to me . I hope they have a deep customer list they can convert to sales as Iâm sure they will start to shed members if they havnât already
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I donât think you are paying just for the wine either, they do so much other stuff between the culinary aspect and even their wine club where they source wines from around the world and I am sure these costs offset those activities. I have always felt what they do is pretentious the pricing just screams âluxuryâ.
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Iâve been buying since the 2017 vintage from their Reserve Membership (they essentially open up the offer a week early for people who have a standing order of the same wines and it is called âReserve Membershipâ). Anyone on their mailing list can set this up by emailing them their standing wishlist. I ended up passing my 2022 allocation to a friend who has been waiting to get on the list and then ended up dropping my reserve allocation this year. I love Burgundy too and although some of the Antica Terra wines are incredible, at these prices you can get some truly outstanding Burgundy. Iâve also honed in on the fact that when Iâm going to drink Willamette wines Morgen Long, Walter Scott, and Kelley Fox are my favorite price aside.
Thoughts on the wines themselves:
I think the Ceras is the best QPR. Super mineral with a complex mix of red & black fruits and just the right amount of whole cluster. Its actually a pretty good wringer for Roumier Les Cras IMO.
Antikythera is a singular wine. Itâs also their only single vineyard wine. I always get Cinnamon on the nose and the tannic structure is like a delicate Barolo. As a result it takes a minimum of 10 years to enter itâs early drinking window, but when it does it is an incredibly complex and beautiful wine.
General Comments on the Whites: They are very well made wines, but it depends on what you are looking for in Chardonnay. Maggie likes to give her Chardonnay grapes extended hang time with the thought that the evenings in the Willamette are cool enough to maintain acidity. They use judicious oak. The wines are beautiful in an old school 80âs / 90âs White Burgundy sort of way. They are very balanced, but if you seek the more reductive mineral driven style that is in vogue now, PYCM these are not. I would say Jean-Noel Gagnard is a pretty good analogue to the Whites for my palate.
I have a soft spot for Antica Terra because they are not shy about putting their wines up against old world producers when you taste there, and they have tasted me on so many of the European wines that I now pursue. The fact remains that the wines are expensive, and I now feel that I own enough for the next 15 years. Although I am no longer buying, I do very much look forward to opening what I own.
Cheers!
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Wil spilling the secrets with the Reserve Membership! I ended up getting 2 bottles of Antikythera (one on behalf of someone else) so I can keep that vertical going. I love the people who work there and have had some incredible experiences visiting so I wanted to do something - but still save the budget for Raveneau, Dujac, Tremblay, Coche, Morgen Long, Walter Scott, and everything else thatâs jumped the priority list 
! My fiancée today informed me she wants to build her Bachelorette around a visit there so NOT purchasing was out of the question.
I have a soft spot for Antica Terra because they are not shy about putting their wines up against old world producers when you taste there, and they have tasted me on so many of the European wines that I now pursue.
This is a really great point. I feel like my interest in Burgundy etc. has especially accelerated over the last 2 years. Most recently, I had found myself just as excited to try the European wines when I visited a month ago as I did the wines from Antica Terra (I even tried to figure out what was going to be on the High Bar before our visit). I still want to support as best as possible even if my wine journey - with the assistance of Antica Terra - might lead to money being allocated elsewhere. I had attended an event last year where they came up to Seattle and opened up a 2014 Antikythera and I was seriously impressed. The potential is there and Iâm excited to check on the wines in the future.
Agreed with all of the above. I think for anyone who sees prices increase over time it eventually getâs hard to stomach. You hear it all the time from folks who were buying Burgundy in the 90s. For what itâs worth I paid $150 a bottle for the Antikythera in 2020 and it is now $275 in 2025! 
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Really great to hear about the aging potential; I purchased a few allocations about a decade ago, and am still holding about a dozen of the Pinots. This thread has inspired me to review not only whatâs in the cellar, but give them a taste. will report back.
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While I like Oregon Chardonnay, these prices are way out there.
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This sums up my feelings so perfectly.
I recently organized a white burgundy vs Oregon chardonnay tasting. We did four price tiers ($~40, $~$70, $~100, $~$150), and I put a 2021 Aequorin in for Oregon at that highest price bracket (along with a Morgen Long X-Omni). Both wines went toe to toe with the Burgundies of similar price (all tasted blind) and the Antica Terra was the only Oregon wine to pretty much unanimously take the all the votes across the four price brackets. These are very good wines. Whether they justify their prices really depends on your palette.
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Last day today. Looks like everything is still available, except the library offerings. Picked up some Anthikythera; couldnât help myself. Canât bring myself to pull the trigger on the chard