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This parcel is The Estate Vineyard for Bishop Creek Cellars  winery. It is just one ridge west of Hwy 47 at Cove Orchard and north of Yamhill and south of Gaston on primarily a south facing slope accessed off Russell Creek Rd. by way of Lincoln Rd. Wineries in the area include Elk Cove, Kramer, ADEA, Willakenzie Estate and Beacon Hill. Hwy 47 is one of the prime wine touring routes for both Yamhill and Washington County from Portland and Hillsboro .  The Yamhill Carlton AVA was formed in 2004 and includes many of Oregon ’s heavy hitters located on the hills surrounding the towns of, you guessed it, Yamhill and Carlton southwest of Portland about 45 miles and minutes from downtown Portland . The property contains a number of elevated potential homesites with incredible views to the south into the Willamette Valley over the Yamhill and Carlton and the Coast Range Mountains to the west. (See homesite information below)

Land & VINEYARD
The offering consists of a total of just under 67 acres with a total of about 28 highly suited to vineyard production and with just over 13 acres in grapes. This includes 7.83 acres of Pommard and Wadensvil and Dijon 777 clones of Pinot noir planted in 1988 on its own roots in fairly high density. There are no signs of phylloxera in this older section. Since then, the vineyard has been planted on phylloxera-resistant rootstocks 101-14 and 3309  to another 1.95 acres of Dijon 667 and Pommard clones Pinot noir, 2 acres of Pinot gris, .25 acres of Pinot blanc and .66 acres of Syrah and .23 acres of Gruner Veltliner (Gru-Vee), Austria ’s most widely planted white grape. The vines are head-trained, cane-pruned into a single vertical curtain with catchwires for shoot positioning. The soils on the portion of the property that are vineyard-suited are shown on the Soil Conservation Map as Willakenzie, which is widely planted upon in this AVA. It is a sedimentary soil type formed during the Eocene period when this land mass was submerged under the ocean. It is generally described as yellow or reddish yellow silty clay loam 3-5’ over siltstone and sandstone and has available water capacity of 5-7.5”. The vineyard is not irrigated and the cropload is kept low. The vineyard has been Certified Sustainable from LIVE (Low Input Viticulture and Enology). About half  of the grapes are used in Bishop Creek Cellars own wines, but some are sold to other high end producers. The balance of the land not used for vineyard is used for pasture and wildlife habitat.

Improvements 
Other than the vineyard, there is an equipment shed, and a mobile home for farm workers that does not carry an unlimited homesite permit and can only legally be occupied 10 months of the year. The owner is currently processing a permanent homesite by virtue of meeting the Yamhill County income requirements for this soil capability and that would be a condition of a sale.  This would allow construction of a stick house anywhere on the property of unlimited square footage, subject to septic permitting. Included in the offering is the equipment currently used in the vineyard, including a Kubota wheel tractor and a Landini crawler tractor, flail, sprayer, etc.

Zoning 
The property is zoned Exclusive Farm Use. Homesite approval is as described above. A winery could be allowed with another 2 acres of vines planted or with conditional use permit.

Location
The property is at 23432 Russell Creek Rd., Yamhill , OR 97148 . It is also described at Township 2s, Range 4w, Section 22, Tax lots 1405, 1402 and 1404. See maps.

Price
$995,000 for the vineyard, equipment and land. Bishop Creek Cellars wines could also be negotiated as a part of a transaction.