COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL AUGUST 23, 2017
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Chateau Lorane winery celebrates 25 years
Kester said his family moved to a ranch in Southern
Oregon, but retirement couldn’t keep him from pursu-
ing his passion of wine making. In 1992 he turned his
hobby into a business, and Chateau Lorane was born.
Kester’s been selling his wine ever since.
“When you’re doing something you enjoy, time just
fl ies by,” Kester said.
The fl agship wine for Chateau Lorane is a Marechal
Foch, a hybrid wine made from crossbreed of French
and American grapes. Many of Kester’s wines have
gone on to win awards at several competitions, such as
at the Tasters Guild International Judging. Kester said
he has always had an interest in little known or unusual
By Eric Schucht Chateau Lorane is celebrating its 25th
For The Sentinel
anniversary this year. Located 14 miles varieties of wine.
from Cottage Grove, the winery plans “I decided I wanted to do something different than
everyone else,” Kester said.
to host events for members of its wine club this sum-
To celebrate the 25th anniversary, Kester said he plans
mer to commemorate the occasion along with events
to host several events in the next couple of months for
for the general public sometime this fall.
the members of Chateau Lorane’s wine club. Wine
Chateau Lorane was a passion project of Linde Kester
club members receive three bottles of wine each quar-
that quickly grew into a thriving business.
ter and are some of Kester’s greatest supporters, Kester
“Now what you see here is when a hobby gets out of
said. Other events available for the general public are
control,” Kester said.
in the works and could occur this fall.
Kester started making wine as a hobby over 35 years
“We didn’t have any parties for 10th, 15th, or 20th an-
ago. An electronics engineer who worked his way up
niversary, but I thought, 25, now that’s kind of special,”
to business owner, Kester made wine for friends and
Kester said.
family out of his garage. Producing a couple hundred
The building that houses the winery was constructed in
barrels of wine each year, Kester said he got great re-
1996. Comprising of 4,000 square feet, the modern fa-
views for his wine.
“My friends and relatives all seemed to like it, so I kept cility is able to produce 10-15 thousand gallons of wine
a year. A year later a tasting room was added on.
on doing it,” Kester said.
The 208 acre parcel of land the winery sits on was
Kester took wine making classes at the University
bought by Kester in 1988. Located three miles from
of California, Davis with the hopes of improving his
technical knowledge in the craft. Retiring at the age 46, where his ranch originally stood, the property was once
a corporate retreat for a timber baron. A 25 acre lake
Kester and his family moved from the San Diego area
is located on the land, of which the winery overlooks
out to Oregon in 1990.
“We just wanted to get away. We had taken a few vaca- from nearby hills.
In 1994, a building that sat near the lake was converted
tions to Oregon and fell in love with it,” Kester said.
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from a rec room into a wedding venue. A parking lot
was added along with garden in the vicinity. Between
fi ve to six hundred weddings have been done at the
property ever since.
Kester said he plans to retire soon and has put the win-
ery up for sale. He said he hopes for whoever buys the
property to have as much of a passion of the art of wine
making that he has had over the years. In any case, he
plans to give them any help if asked.
“To really succeed, you’ve got to have a passion for
wine. And I caught the bug and never got over it,”
Kester said.
Around 90 percent of the Chateau Lorane’s wine is sold
locally while the rest is sold online on their website.
The Kester’s wine can be found at local wine shops and
both Fred Meyers and Market of Choice in the Eugene
area.
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Unusually hot temperatures have ignited fi res around the state and scheduled events have only
heightened fi re fears.
Two music festivals-one in northern Oregon, the other in southern Oregon, were scheduled for the
weekend and an estimated one million additional tourists were expected to crash into the state between
August 17 and August 21 to view the total solar eclipse.
While the surge in population is welcomed by local businesses, it raises concerns over fi re dangers as
campgrounds and the state were completed booked even as fi re bans were in place throughout the state.
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