Planet Oregon Wines
1% for the Planet®
Planet Oregon Wines are made with sustainable growing practices and bottled in our certified sustainable winery. We rigorously document, reduce, mitigate and offset all carbon accounted for in our onsite production methods. Our Planet Oregon wines have a name and a purpose intended to make clear that our mission beyond making fabulously affordable and great drinking Pinot Noir is to give back to this very place that helps make it possible.
As part of 1% for the Planet, 1% of all Planet Oregon wine sales are donated to the Oregon Environmental Council (OEC). For 50 years, OEC has been a leader in protecting the water, air and land we all share and love.
We have partnered with the OEC since the conception of Planet Oregon in 2009. Their work ensures Oregonians live healthier lives because our air, water and land are cleaner; our food is sustainably produced; and the products, energy and transportation we rely on are safer for our environment.
This desire to be an advocate and ally in the fight against climate change is what brought us together. Through the years we have donated over $130,000 to the OEC, and to safeguarding the future of our planet.
From The Founder
“I don’t know how to do much else in life other than grow grapes and make wine. We manage to sell what we make with enough profit to keep doing what we do. Some days that seems like accomplishment enough! 45 years and counting, we are still at it. My life partner, Michelle, and I always had other dreams, however, like owning a farm and growing food as well as wine. Learning and teaching our children how to care for the land we cultivate. Over time this has extended to our entire staff of 40 people all learning and practicing sustainable farming and winemaking. We call it not just working for a living but working with a purpose. A purpose not measured in quarterly profits but generational impacts.
Planet Oregon was born as a wine brand that wanted to have a purpose greater than what is in the bottle, and a reach beyond the confines of one property or a few wine collectors’ cellars. What if beyond being delicious and value priced, people put stock in the fact that the wine walks the talk of certified sustainable wine growing. And moreover, that this wines value includes sharing some of its proceeds to help save the Planet for those who will inhabit the future.
This could mean you spend money on pleasure and gratification yet know some of that spend went not to our wine company, but to the Oregon Environmental Council, an organization with 50 years of commitment to making Oregon a better place to live. Planet Oregon Wines give back a dollar for every bottle sold in Oregon as a donation to OEC, and have been doing so since our first vintage in 2009. It’s a wine with a mission whose impact has grown fivefold over ten vintages.
Today we create two Planet Oregon Wines both made from Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, all sustainably and/or organically grown. One is a supple, and vibrant red wine redolent of Oregon summer berries. The other a sparkling rosé with the perfume of rose petals and enough fizz to cause a commotion. It’s wonderful to be part of creating such life-affirming wines that can in turn inspire action in support of our planet.”
Tony Soter
Winegrower, Owner
Soter Vineyards and Planet Oregon Wines
