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A Stunning Wine Selection From Willamette Valley

Our goal is to showcase the best of what Oregon has to offer in cool climate grapes and wines!

A Stunning Wine Selection From Willamette Valley

Our goal is to showcase the best of what Oregon has to offer in cool climate grapes and wines!

Introducing Possessed Wine

Possessed Wine is a line of select, small production wines, crafted with care using biodynamic methods. The amazing Willamette Valley is nature’s masterpiece, creating the ideal location for viticulture. Its deep and complex soils, gentle rolling hills, annual rainfall, average seasonal temperatures, and long summer daylight coalesce to produce top world class wines.

Our goal is to showcase the best of what Oregon has to offer in cool climate grapes and wines!

Our Winemaker

Carmine Campione is an army veteran who holds the first American degree with Biodynamic Viticulture from The Evergreen State College. Additional coursework at Oregon State University and specialized Wine Studies degrees from Chemeketa Community College fine-tuned his winemaking expertise. Carmine has over 30 years’ experience with all aspects of the wine industry in California’s Napa Valley and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Great wine producers such as the Willamette Valley’s Domaine Serene, Red Hawk, Bethel Heights, and Stangeland; as well as Napa Valley’s Vinecliff, Merryvale & Harlan Estates rounded out his career. Carmine has served as a wine judge in Oregon and was recently inducted into the Oregon Wine Brotherhood.

The Campione family has produced wines in Sicily over generations; Carmine carries on that tradition with his newly launched line of craft wines. Carmine’s passions are to produce world-class wines and empower consumers’ understanding of wines and their perfect pairing with foods.

 

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The Vineyards

Possessed wines are sourced from Oregon’s amazing Willamette Valley grapes. All wines are produced using clean, biodynamic winemaking methods.  Varietals range from our vibrantly fruity, light and low calorie Pinot Gris and Godess Rose’ to a rich, food-friendly Somm Select Rose’ and on to a heavily structured Pinot Noir, an amazingly complex and balanced cool-climate Syrah, a Miracle Red cool-climate field blend, and finally a fully-aged for 16+ years in barrel (2002) Madeira-Style Pinot Noir.

We hope you can find some time to enjoy these unique and innovative wines!

What's in a name?

The name Possessed Wine was chosen because of the magic of sustainable winemaking.  Each wine goes through its own unique process from field to bottle, based on vineyard and weather conditions, grape type, fermentation temperatures, yeast and enzyme types, and choice of clean materials which mature the wine. Wines are never forced thus they possess their own unique balance, beauty and character or expression. Each barrel, each vintage, each grape varietal will be unique and appreciated for its own magic. Wine is food for the mind, body, and soulWe hope Possessed Wine will resonate with you!

Our Possessed label was chosen because of the natural beauty depicted in Patrice Federspiel’s artwork, and the connection between plant and person. For more information on the artist, visit www.artofaloha.com.

 

Possessed Godess Pinot Rose'

 

This amazing rose' wine is made with Pinot Gris as an "orange wine", meaning with Pinot Gris skin contact which is light red with Willamette Valley biodynamically grown grapes. Vibrant fruit and long finish are the result of both stainless-steel aging and the perfect amount of time in Oregon oak barreling...

 

Possessed Godess Pinot Gris

This is a super bright and amazingly fruity wine made with high elevation Willamette Valley grapes.  Its vibrant fruit and long finish are the result of both stainless-steel aging and the perfect amount of time in Oregon Oak barreling. This cellaring technique preserves the fresh fruit flavors of the Pinot Gris and balances its crispness with the lush viscosity of perfectly oak-aged wine...

 

Pinot Rose' Somm Select

 

Exceptional balance and brilliant Pinot Noir fruit expression make this a truly unique wine. It is produced from high elevation Willamette Valley biodynamically grown fruit and cellared with Oregon oak barreling always under biodynamic practices.  This rich wine is a joy to drink and ideal for most any excellent food event! It possesses solid acidity and a brilliant structure...

 

Pinot Noir

This deep, full-bodied Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is densely structured and possesses rich, abundant Oregon Oak tannins. The wine possesses huge aromatics of raspberry, strawberry and truffle and touch of black cherry pie in the glass, complex flavors of dark chocolate cherry accentuated with vanilla, cedar, and aged meats on the palate, with a hauntingly long savory Oregon oak finish...

Miracle Red

 

This wine is one-of-a-kind! Carmine created a completely unique whole cluster field blend of Pinot Noir, Gamay Noir, Tempranillo, and Viognier from the Chemeketa Wine Studies vineyard within the Eola-Amity AVA. It was whole cluster co-fermented and then cellared using Oregon Oak and biodynamic methods. This deep hearty wine evokes complex flavors and exquisite natural balance...

 

Syrah

This cool-climate Syrah displays the beauty of grapes hand-selected from the Chemeketa Wine Studies vineyard within the Eola-Amity AVA. This complex and beautifully balanced wine was produced with biodynamic methods and Oregon oak barreling for 26 months. It will age beautifully over time. 

Madeira Style Pinot Noir

 

Carmine’s desire to produce a madeira wine with Pinot Noir began in 2002 during his development of the original “Oregon Pinot Camp”.  He grew, hand-selected, and fermented biodynamically grown Willamette Valley Pinot Noir grapes, procured a limousin French oak barrel, and began aging this beauty...

 

Possessed Pinot Noir 2015

 

Possessed by purest biodynamic craftsmanship from growing and cellaring for 54 months with limousin French Oak using proprietary biodynamic methods, this deep rich Pinot Noir expresses complex flavors and exquisite natural balance...

 

Possessed Gamay Noir 2018

 

Amazing biodynamic winemaking helped to craft this normally light body varietal wine to a medium deep, full-extraction unique Gamay Noir, possessed with densely structured rich, moderately soft tannins...

 

Contact

Phone

(503) 991-9767

Mail

Carmine@PossessedWine.com

Address

18 El Greco St. Lake Oswego, Oregon