One for the pursuit. One for the table.
Académie is the studied house — ambitious, made to last, offered by allocation. Ostia Tempore is the pleasure — generous, immediate, made for the table.
Académie
Ostia TemporeAcadémie is built around a single question: how far can the Willamette Valley go? These are wines of ambition and patience — made to be judged by what they mean, not what they score, and released only by allocation.
The wine the comet named.
Some vintages are not made; they are given. An old vigneron's conviction holds that a great comet marks a great vintage — the legend born in 1811, whose wines were said to live a century. The sign returned in October 2024, as Comet Tsuchinshan‑ATLAS crossed the Willamette sky during our first harvest. The name is reserved for the finest Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Not love as declaration, but love as experience.
The burning — luminous and driven. Love at its first spark, alive before it understands itself.
The plush, generous Pinot — love as the slow work of becoming essential to someone.
The structured Pinot that holds something back and makes you lean in — the tension between knowing and having.
“The gate of time.”
It begins with a Burgundian who could never quite leave Oregon. Bertrand de Villaine first came as a student in 1995 and spent three decades finding his way back. He and Thomas Savre met tending vines at the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti; the friendship became Ostia Tempore when Thomas settled in the Willamette Valley. Ostia — the ancient port where the world came ashore and mixed — is his answer in the same key: generous, alive, serious in the making and immediate in the drinking.
Generous, alive, made for the table — a bottle you open because the night is better for it.
The pleasure answered in white — open, immediate, made for a night you don't want to end.
The fullest expression of Ostia — the same generosity, drawn deeper.
Singular in belief, expressed in two keys.
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