Lytle-Barnett | Aubaine Wine Lounge

Andrew Davis spent years at Argyle, Oregon’s founding sparkling house, before setting out to make vintage méthode champenoise to the specifications of vintage French Champagne. Lytle-Barnett is that project: slow-aged, traditional method sparkling from Eola-Amity Hills fruit, produced in small quantities.

The wines are built on extended time. Extended tirage is the house signature, and the results have consistently ranked among the best sparkling wines made in Oregon.

Founded by Andy Lytle and shaped by Director of Winemaking Isabelle Meunier, Aubaine is devoted exclusively to single-vineyard Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from two estate sites: Anahata Vineyard and Windfall Vineyard, both situated on the western edge of the Eola-Amity Hills, fully exposed to the cooling influence of the Van Duzer Corridor. These are wines of place — specific, unmediated, and unhurried.

The label sits under AtTheJoy, the parent company founded by Andy Lytle, alongside the still-wine label Aubaine. The two share a tasting space — 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 building that housed The Dapper Frog before the pandemic.

The tasting format is unusually open. Rather than a fixed flight, guests choose freely across both portfolios — a run of vintage sparkling, a lineup of Aubaine’s estate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, or any combination, for a single fee. 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 the table.

Lytle-Barnett is a participating producer on February’s Best Oregon Bubbles Trail, and Andy Lytle was among the founding architects of Method Oregon, the state’s sparkling producer organization.