Kelly Kidneigh and Stirling Fox fell in love with Oregon wine and each other while working together on their journeys in farming and crafting small batch wines of beautiful varietal character.  Along the way Mad Violets Wine Company was born in 2008, right after they purchased the Buttonfield Estate in the Chehalem Mountains.

The fruit is sourced from the Dupee Vineyard in the McMinnville AVA and consists of a three-clone blend; 95, 76 and 548. They are picked together and co-fermented. It is barrel fermented and then aged in 40% new French oak for fourteen months, which results in an elegant integration of oak and fruit.

The wine is the pale color of straw with chartreuse flecks dancing through it. The nose is beeswax, linalool, fresh pineapple and lemon zest. The pallet is rich with notes of toasted almond and vanilla bean, but bright with notes of citrus and fresh peach.