Lingua Franca

Lingua Franca is a wine producer inspired by a vineyard site in the Eola-Amity Hills of the Willamette Valley. In 2010, Master Sommelier Larry Stone began negotiations to acquire the 150-acre Janzen Farm, completing the purchase on December 31, 2012. Dominique Lafon and his winemaking protégé Thomas Savre joined Stone to craft the wines.

The east-facing Janzen Farm site has a 300-foot elevation gain, with Nekia, Gelderman, and Jory soils. Under the guidance of regenerative viticulturist Mimi Casteel, the estate vineyard was planted with different combinations of rootstock and budwood, following low-impact, organic, and biodynamic farming principles.