DAYTON, Ore. — An Italian wine investment group has acquired the Dundee Hills vineyard at 6475 Northeast Hilltop Lane in Dayton that grew grapes for Domaine Lumineux, the Coppola family-owned winery with a tasting room in downtown Newberg. The sale does not affect the tasting room’s operations.
ROCO Winery, a wholly owned subsidiary of HERITA USA — the fine wine import company controlled by Italy’s Marzotto family — announced March 18 that it had acquired 59 acres on Hilltop Lane in Dayton, of which 41 acres are under vine. The property sits between 670 and 870 feet in elevation in the Dundee Hills American Viticultural Area, less than a mile from where Oregon’s first Pinot Noir vines were planted in 1965, according to the company’s press release.
The Domaine Lumineux brand, along with its tasting room at 115 N. Washington St. in Newberg, was not part of the transaction and will remain under the ownership of the Francis Ford Coppola wine portfolio…