Halem Heights

What is Halem Heights?

Two things in one: a wine brand and an Airbnb, both sitting on the same Chehalem Valley estate that Grove Vineyard farms. Grove is the land — the rows, the soil, the agriculture. Halem Heights is the bottle on the table and the door you walk through when you stay the night.

The brand is trademarked under Lucas Sommer Inc. Wine has been produced and sold, including Pinot Noir and Chardonnay distributed through Vinoshipper.

The Wine

Crafted by Jacques Tardy — 8th-generation Burgundian winemaker. Jacques was born into wine: studied Viticulture and Enology at Lycée Viticole de Beaune, moved to California in 1982, and made his way to the Willamette Valley by 1990. He previously served as head winemaker at Torii Mor, where his focus on structure and balance helped brand the winery as one of the top-ranked Pinot Noir producers in the United States.

For Halem Heights he produces wines of elegance, balance, and intention, using estate fruit plus sourcing from prestigious Dundee Hills vineyards and other AVAs within the Willamette Valley.

• Varietals — Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
• Style — Burgundian sensibility: restraint, structure, terroir-forward
• Sourcing — Estate fruit + select Willamette Valley vineyards (Dundee Hills AVA and others)
• Distribution — Direct to consumer via Vinoshipper

The Estate & Airbnb

The property sits in a remote area of the Chehalem Valley at the end of a winding gravel road, on a hillside nestled in a forest of Douglas Fir. The estate hosts an Airbnb rental — guests get the same view the vines grow into. Hospitality as a second product line, the same land monetized twice.

Why a Separate Brand?

Grove Vineyard and Halem Heights are deliberately split. Grove is the farming operation: rows, soil, agricultural revenue, post-mortems on each harvest. Halem Heights is the consumer-facing identity: the label on the bottle, the listing on Airbnb, the story a guest reads when they pour a glass on the porch.

Splitting them keeps the agricultural P&L clean and the consumer brand free to evolve — the wine can grow into a national label without dragging vineyard ops along, and the property can be a destination without the visitor needing to understand farming.

The Vision

Build the Halem Heights brand into a name Willamette Valley wine drinkers know — small enough to stay personal, distinctive enough to stand out in a crowded AVA. Wine is one of the few products where the land itself becomes the brand; this is the long game on that compound.