Last call for alcohol Berserkers! These VinDependence Days are winding down fast and we’ve all been feeling your love. Winegrowing is not a profession built on economic sanity, but we are here for it as long as we have your support - and we love you for it. 
THE DETAILS
My wine offers are set up so to that you can assemble a super solid case at a discount for free shipping. All orders are run through Vinoshipper and are shipped via UPS – so contact me if you don’t see your State listed or if you would like a bespoke lineup of wines…or only a sixer. I am happy to help get you a flat fee on shipping for smaller quantities if you prefer…just ask. All orders will be shipped when the heat of summer passes – but if you need your wine sooner, just reach out and we can talk options. Local pickup and delivery is also available – just be sure to click “local pickup” at checkout. New wines are coming out this fall, so definitely email me to get on the list and receive newsletters. It is truly the best way to follow what is happening in the vineyard/winery throughout the year and to catch micro-lot bottlings before they evaporate. And - as always - if you’re in the Willamette Valley, please feel free to reach out and come walk with me at the vineyard.
Thank you for showing up for all of us here VinDependence Days 2025!!! We love you back!
shelby@perkinsharter.com | 707-540-1847
THE OFFERS
REMEMBER TO MAKE IT A FULL CASE FOR FREE SHIPPING
Offer 1: Eola Bench Mixer $360 > $306
This lineup illustrates an array of wines from the same volcanic landslide subarea in the Eola-Amity Hills we have come to call “The Eola Bench”. This lineup is a primer on place. Do the wines show terroir, a sameness, a strangeness? There is only one way to find out. Bracken sits just above + next door to Sojeau. Sojeau’s vines are older, but Bracken’s are higher…these wines can be your personal journey into the place we call home.
1 x bottle each:
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- 2024 Bracken Pinot Meunier
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- 2023 Bracken Chardonnay
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- 2023 Bracken Pinot Noir
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- 2022 Bracken Pinot Noir
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- 2022 Sojeau Pinot Noir
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- 2021 Sojeau Pinot Noir
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Offer 2: High Bench Pinot Sixer $360 > $306
Pinots of Bracken, three ways:
2 x bottles each:
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- 2024 Bracken Pinot Meunier
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- 2023 Bracken Pinot Noir
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- 2022 Bracken Pinot Noir
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Offer 3: Moo Sixer $405 > $344
I am over the moon about having bottled my first red Pinot Meunier on Monday – the culmination of an interest I’ve had in the grape since Judy Jordan’s red Meunier bottlings inspired me some 15 years ago. Of course, Pinot Meunier usually known to take the stage as part of Champagne blends. Therefore, it follows that I have also bottled a blend of Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir as a rosé sparkling wine that will also be released this fall. These rosé bubbles have finished tirage (the secondary fermentation in bottle that creates the bubbles ) and will be corked in two weeks with 3-5g/L dosage, depending on what I’m feeling. The blend is 75% 2023 Pinot Noir and 25% 2024 Pinot Meunier. I handle all of my own sparking work, disgorge by hand - none of this contract wine production business…the real deal, going deep.
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- 3 x 2024 Bracken Pinot Meunier - NEW
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- 3 x NV Rosé Bubbles – NEW
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Offer 4: Winner Chicken Dinner Sixer $360 > $306
You probably have noticed by now that I do not engage in the game of submitting my wines for score reviews. Surely, I understand fully why there is a demand or the general categorization of wine quality, but do not believe that a points system can truly capture the experience of what an individual might find in a glass. However, an event took place in Portland back in March: A blind tasting smackdown of sorts at Backcountry Wine Tasting Room, where 64 Pinot Noir wines from Oregon were tasted blind against each other in a tournament format. I was surprised and pleased to make it through the first round. But alas, it turns out that the 2022 Bracken Pinot just kept advancing through the finals to a totally shocking win. It’s silly, I know, but hey…who doesn’t love an underdog story? Woof! Get it while you still can.
- 6 x 2022 Bracken Pinot Noir
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I’ll just leave this here:
Offer 5: Salty Sixer (BONUS ROUND!) $360 > $306
A last minute addition of this terroir-driven 12.6% abv saline Chardonnay. It’s all about the Van Duzer breezes bringing that salt air in from the coast. It’s palpably salty and wily, like it’s grower.
- 6 x 2023 Bracken Chardonnay
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ABOUT PERKINS-HARTER
I began producing wines after a pinball-like journey through a few different lives - as a water laboratory analyst, backcountry guide, nuclear waste lawyer, emerging science policy analyst, and then as a cellar rat down in Napa/Sonoma, beginning in 2009. The first four vintages under my label were Zinfandel blends produced from the R. Teldeschi vineyard in Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma, which was planted in 1889. In 2016, I moved my winemaking to Oregon to chase natural acidity and lower alcohol wines – with a particular interest in Chardonnay. This interest was a direct result of traveling through much of France for a month, meeting with three winemakers a day while studying for the Master of Wine program. An incredibly generous sommelier took me on a historical/comparative tasting of Dauvissat and Raveneau one late night in Chablis – and that eventually compelled me to drop out of the MW, move to Oregon, and to buy the vineyard site now known as Bracken. All in.
My primary focus right now is leading Bracken as an organic/biodynamic winegrower – not only for wines, but for my grape buyers and the ongoing health of my vineyard’s ecology. I produce my wines without adjustments, with relatively low amounts of SO2, limited new oak, and with an emphasis on site purity. I use my wines as a lens turned towards my vineyard to study its evolution on a year-to-year basis. As an organic/biodynamic farmer, the tools I use to control the fungal environment in the vineyard is limited – so I very intentionally allow my wines to show that fungal load so that I can adjust farming methods as needed. When I used to work for Chris Howell at Cain in Napa, he would often say “who’s to say only yeast should make the wine?” – and I’ve come around to his thinking in that I recognize that native fermentations present all my vineyard’s microbial biodiversity, not just its yeast species.
In essence, farming is form of mining – and therefore it follows that if we leave water in the ground, it will remain there for our future, and if we mindfully give back to the site with nutrients, the land will continue to provide. As a member of Deep Roots Coalition, I encourage you to support the wineries that are its members (and their ilk) who are dedicated to doing the right thing when it comes to farming responsibly. In the world of small wine, we are producing expressions of ourselves and the places we live, not a commodity meant to maximize the income of investors. For 2025 my grape clients include Berserker Day sellers Violin, Walter Scott, and Hundred Suns, among others. These amazing humans understand that attention to every detail is everything.
After 16 vintages, I have my sea legs in the winery – most recently with still wines made from my Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier vines. My sparkling wines have been an unexpected foray into the unknown. Along with growing and roasting tea (cameliia sinensis) I grow at Bracken, sparkling wines have become the forum for some of my truest feelings of play. My sandbox full of wonder – and some of the most creative conversations I have with this place.
I sell primarily to my DTC list with some exceptions. The 2023 vintage has recently made it into the NYC area recently via my incredible German Riesling-focused distribution partner Vom Boden. Shops like Tribeca Wine Merchants and Flatiron Wines, and restaurants such as Chambers are helping to spread the word about our work here at Bracken. Vom Boden has also graciously taken my wines into Illinois, and I do know that PH wines can now be found at Oriole (Michelin**) and Smyth (Michelin***) in Chicago. I’ll share other locations as I become aware of them. And for my customers in Connecticut – great news! – wines are flowing across the State thanks my distribution partners aka the amazing humans at Ungrafted Selections. Nodoguro is in a new location in Portland and has been pouring my wines recently as well - just making it up as I go along over here.
