Aubaine Wine

Andy Lytle spent close to thirty years in the wine and beverage business before buying two properties in the Eola-Amity Hills to build as legacy estates. Aubaine, founded in 2019, is what came of that. The name is French for windfall, and the philosophy sits in the word: a windfall isn’t manufactured, it’s recognized, tended, and shared.

Everything here is single-vineyard and estate-only, restricted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The Anahata Vineyard was planted in 2015 and surrounds Lytle’s AtTheJoy vacation rental, just up the road from Bethel Heights and Temperance Hill. The name is Sanskrit for the heart chakra, and the blocks are named after translations of the word joy — hence bottlings called Joie, Vreugde, and Athas. Windfall Vineyard is the second, 117 acres on the western edge of the Eola-Amity Hills, still in development, sitting directly in the path of the Van Duzer Corridor winds with vineyard apiaries on site.

Isabelle Meunier is Director of Winemaking. Oregon drinkers know her from Lavinea, and she also makes the wine at LucidWild. The wines are described as specific, unmediated, and unhurried. Production runs around 1,500 cases.

The Aubaine wines are poured at the Lytle-Barnett | Aubaine Wine Lounge, which opened in May 2024 on SW 7th Street in downtown Dundee, next door to the Dundee Bistro and across from Red Hills Market, in a space that was The Dapper Frog before the pandemic. Both labels share the room and the same parent company, AtTheJoy.

The tasting format is unusually open-handed. Rather than fixed flights, guests choose freely across both portfolios — a full run of Chardonnay, a line-up of vintage sparkling, or any mix of the two. It’s the most flexible tasting in Dundee, and the only one where you set the running order. Small bites come from Red Hills Market and Merenda, delivered to your table.