David Lett

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David Lett, owner-winemaker at The Eyrie Vineyards in Oregon with a bottle of the 1975 Eyrie Vineyards South Block Reserve--the bottle that put Oregon on the world's pinot noir map.
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David Lett, owner-winemaker at The Eyrie Vineyards in Oregon with a bottle of the 1975 Eyrie Vineyards South Block Reserve--the bottle that put Oregon on the world's pinot noir map.

David Lett (1939- ) is the founder and winemaker for The Eyrie Vineyards in Oregon.

Lett grew up in the American state of Utah and studied dentistry in California. In 1966, against the advice of the professors at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), he moved to Oregon and purchased hillside acreage near Dundee, a small town about 45 minutes south of Portland. He and his wife Diana planted the first vineyard and made their first pinot noir in 1970.

The Eyrie Vineyards 1975 South Block Reserve Pinot Noir shocked much of the wine world when it showed very well in the Wine Olympiad ("Wine Olympics"), first in Paris in 1979 and then in Burgundy the following year.

The winery itself is in McMinnville, Oregon.

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