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In The Winery

Exploring How a Boutique Winery

Crafts a Diverse Wine Portfolio

By: Becky Garrison
A quick glance at the wine list at Fullerton he needed to craft distinctive wines that reflect the

Wines, and one could easily be fooled
soil where they are grown.
into thinking this family-run venture is
a large-scale commercial winery. Depending on
one’s palate and pock-etbook, they can choose
from Fullerton Wines’ Single Vineyard and Reserve
wines, their nu-anced Five FACES line of Pinot Noir
and Chardonnay, or their more playful and lighter
Three Otters line of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot
Noir Rosé and Pinot Gris. So how can a boutique
winery that produces 8,000 cases annually craft
such a vast array of wines?
Fullerton Family: Eric, Susanne, Filip, Alex & Caroline
The short answer? “I’m on the road a lot,” said
Fullerton Wines’ winemaker, Alex Fullerton. The A Wine-Loving Family
long answer starts with Alex’s lifelong passion for
wine, cultivated through his family back-ground Prior to founding Fullerton Wines, Eric and
and education in viticulture and enology at Oregon Susanne Fullerton, hailing from Denmark and Swe-
State University. These factors gave him the tools den respectively, introduced their passion for wine
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