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Christina Kelly,
Avalon Wine Senior Editor

Christina Kelly spent the first half of her career as a journalist for daily newspapers and magazines. She left daily journalism to work in corporate marketing/communications, but as a passionate wine enthusiast, she continues to write about the Northwest wine industry (since 1997) for many national publications.

Christina is a multiple fellowship winner to the Professional Wine Writers Symposium in Napa, including 2012. Christina has written for Avalonwine.com for the past 12 years. She can be reached at winewriter@comcast.net.

Jean Yates
Avalon Wine Owner

Jean first worked with the Oregon wine industry in 1989, when she helped develop marketing brochures for wineries in the South Willamette. She then started Avalon, and has supported the industry through her wine shop and web site ever since. Jean enjoys promoting Oregon and Washington wines and bringing Northwest wines to the notice of the wine-loving public across the country. She previously worked in high tech marketing and research in Silicon Valley.

Jean built and continually updates the Avalon web site, writes our Wine Club Newsletter, numerous e-mail articles on NW wine, and articles for the web site. Her twenty five years of experience working with NW wineries and winemakers gives Avalon a deep knowledge of the industry. She's judged NW wine at various competitions since 1997. Jean's favorite activity is photography, and many of the images on the Avalon web site are hers. She's from NC via Palo Alto, and lives in the South Willamette wine country.

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July 14, 2010, at 10:32 am

Oregon Wine – Erin Nuccio Purchases Evesham Wood Winery

By Jean Yates Avalon Wine, on July 14th, 2010

evesham-tasting-10--05Erin Nuccio (Haden Fig) has purchased Evesham Wood Winery. The purchase includes the winery, house, vineyard, and inventory.

Russ writes about the decision: “After 24 years of a mixture of euphoria and despair (only a little bit of the latter) – Mary & I had a golden opportunity to retire early, when we had the great fortune of meeting and working with Erin Nuccio and his wife, Jordan (Haden Fig Wines).”

At right, Russ and Mary in the cellar

“The end result is that we were blessed with the perfect candidates to continue the Evesham Wood Vineyard & Winery legacy (whatever it is?) Apart from our presence here, virtually nothing will change in the vineyard & cellar. Erin & my wine making & vine-tending philosophies are pretty much identical (i.e. organic).

Mary, Aidan, and I will remain in West Salem and will be consulting for the new owners for the next 2 years – and hopefully spending 1-2 months per year at a “maison de village” we purchased near Narbonne, France.

haden-people-croppedI guess this means I’ll have to change my profile pic (on facebook) – I’m entertaining any ideas for a new one…..maybe in a rocking chair w/ a glass of geritol (er, wine). It’s been a fun ride – thanks to all who helped us make it that way!

Russ commented to me this morning:  “I’ll be helping Erin & Jordan out for the next 2 years (+?) but that will be the extent of my “wine making activity”….certainly won’t be giving up its consumption though! Hearing Erin say that “nothing will change at Evesham Wood” was music to my ears. Our philosophies on wine making and vyd. management are virtually identical.”

At right, the Nuccio family

Read more about Evesham Wood and Russ Raney

July 14th, 2010 | Category: Jean's Blogs | Comments are closed

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