A passion for Pinot Noir led Ken & Grace Evenstad to Oregon in 1989. The intense purity of fruit that comes from this area of Oregon was the driving factor for the establishment of Domaine Serene in the Northern Willamette Valley. There are many milestones since the inception of Domaine Serene that can be reviewed in Our Story. Additionally, Ken & Grace have established a great team of people at Domaine Serene and you can get to know them in Our People.

Domaine Serene's farming practices are designed to produce very low crop level for concentrated flavors. Our fourteen year average is 1.7 tons per acre. All of Domaine Serene's grapes are handpicked and hand-sorted on a conveyer belt to remove all imperfect fruit and other matter. The various small lots from each vineyard are kept separate in small open-top fermentors, and in small French cooperage selectively sourced from several French forests. There is minimal intervention and only gentle gravity flow movement of wine from beginning to end. Pinot Noir is in barrel about 14-18 months, is not fined or filtered, and is racked only at bottling. The Estate-grown Dijon clone Chardonnay is fermented in small, French cooperage and aged sur lies for 10-15 months. Bottled wines are aged about one year before release, often longer for single vineyard Pinot Noir. The 2000 harvest yielded approximately 9,500 cases of wine.