a·ca·dé·mien.a place where the pursuit itself matters as much as what it produces.
A new house by winemaker Thomas Savre — with Dominique Lafon and Bertrand de Villaine
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Culture is not inherited — it is built by the people who care enough to keep it alive. Wine once belonged to that work, but somewhere it lost the table, replaced by scores, tasting notes, and a language that made it less alive the more precisely it tried to describe it. Younger generations are not rejecting wine; they are rejecting a version of it that has nothing to say.
Not a winery with a philosophy, but an institution with a living point of view. We believe wine is capable of more than it is being asked to do — and we intend to ask more of it.
We are not trying to make Oregon Burgundy. We are asking what American wine can become when it takes culture as seriously as craft.
Trained in Burgundy and has spent the last decade making wine in the Willamette Valley. Académie is his expression of what is possible here.
Read →Made his family's domaine a standard for white Burgundy, then spent twenty years exploring whether Oregon can reach the same heights.
Read →Bertrand and Thomas have made wine together since 2016 — the partnership that became Ostia Tempore, born from a conviction that Oregon deserves to be taken seriously.
Read →A career in luxury wine sharpened a single conviction, and Académie is built on it: that an American house can stand beside the old world, not in its shadow.
Read →The house's financial mind — a career in beverage and consumer M&A, much of it in wine, beer, and spirits, and a CPA who lectures on the business of wine at Sonoma State.
Wine has always belonged to these moments — not out of necessity, but because it marks them. It slows time, invites conversation, reminds us that some moments deserve our attention.
The table at midnight — the bottles spent, no one reaching for their coat. The table cannot be scored. That is the entire point.
The first release moves through the country as a series of private residencies — long-table dinners, allocation tastings, late rooms for sommeliers — and finally home to Oregon.
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