DOMAINE NICOLAS-JAY
A late September evening, and Jay Boberg is loosening the ratchet straps securing harvest bins to a flatbed trailer in preparation for the picking of Pinot Noir in the Nysa Vineyard at dawn. The Nysa site, in the Dundee Hills in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, offers a stunning panoramic view of the area, including the estate vineyards of Domaine Drouhin Oregon.
The quarter-tonne bins have been hauled here by Furiosa, a rusty Dodge Ram 250 Cummins Turbo Diesel, affectionately named after Charlize Theron’s character in Mad Max: Fury Road. This weathered truck has become something of an entrenched character at Domaine Nicolas-Jay, and in a sense solidifies the healthy humility that runs throughout this project.
Ex-music industry power player Jay Boberg’s role in the winery runs the gamut from co-founder, winery planner, field sorter and harvest-bin transporter.
