Julia Bailey: Loop de Loop Wines
Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Wasco and Wishram, Yakama, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians land - Underwood, Washington
www.loopdeloopvintner.com , @loopdeloopwines
Loop de Loop wines are high-altitude mountain wines. The winery’s vineyards are on an extinct volcano on the edge of the Cascade Mountain Range. Julia Bailey is the winemaker, founder, and majority owner. She started the project by trading her labor for 3 tons of Pinot noir & production space. She built the brand organically while selling wines for a distributor by day to pay the bills. This allowed her to sell her wines at the same time. In 2019 her husband, Scott joined in the project as they sold their house in Portland to buy a vineyard and build a small winery.
The wines are fermented with the wild yeasts that come in on the fruit. They are treated gently in the cellar - favoring pigéage over punch-downs, and gravity over pumps. They are made in the tradition of old-world wines. Generally, less than 20 ppm SO2 is added to the wines and nothing else. They are gently bottled by hand, unfined, and unfiltered.
Loop de Loop’s Light Anthology Vineyard is farmed organically with regenerative farming at the foundation. They practice no-till and do not irrigate. A cover crop that builds soil and attracts beneficial insects is seeded yearly, and over 500 native shrubs have been planted as well as native flowers and grasses. 85% of the vineyards they source fruit from are also farmed organically. The rest are farmed sustainably without the use of glyphosate. The goal is to soon be working with only organically grown grapes.
Social Justice and Environmental Restoration Statement
We pay all who help us a living wage ($17-$25/hour). Our one employee is salaried and receives 36 days off a year.
We create charity wines and have raised roughly $10k to date; which has been donated to organizations such as NAACP, 350.org, Family Meal, and The Cancer Research Institute.
We donate wines regularly, with an emphasis on charity organizations that address medical needs in marginalized communities within the food and wine producing communities.
We do not till or irrigate & minimize water use in the cellar.
We only source lightweight American-produced glass and sustainably certified corks and labels.
We actively sequester carbon in our vineyard and work diligently to build soil, biodiversity & to restore native plants to our land. We have helped neighbors to do the same.
We minimize the use of plastic in the cellar and use biodegradable tape on our cases.