John House must like pushing rocks up hills. He makes multiple variations, in miniscule quantities, of riesling and gewürztraminer, most from southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley. His wines are great and everything we look for as geeky wine merchants. And they are delicious. But they are riesling and gewurz and they aren't easy sells these days

Each Ovum wine is made in the exact same way. Their low intervention production method is a commitment to letting each vintage and vineyard come through, for better or worse. Native ferments, no subtractions or additions, except for small amounts of SO2 - and extended lees contact for 8-9 months, which lends textural complexity. All of this is done in neutral barrels of acacia and oak, as well as cement egg. The nuances and subtleties of the resulting wines are owed exclusively to the terroir from whence they came. Drinking an Ovum wine is like listening to a great song, on vinyl.