The name of 00 “Double Zero” Wines references the mystery of winemaking.
In his book Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, American journalist Charles Seife writes,
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
zero – and an infinity.
As Charles Seife notes in the above quote, 0 represents the potential of something.
One 0 in our name represents Chardonnay. The other 0 represents Pinot Noir.
We only work with these two incredibly complex and mysterious noble grape varietals.
This is because humans, climate, soil, and land have the potential to co-create a transcendent expression of nature with these sensitive grape varietals.
In short, 00 wines has our philosophy written on the bottle: each vintage, we let the land speak for itself in the glass through the potential of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
We are not an estate winery.
We partner with farmers in Willamette Valley, Burgundy, and Champagne to purchase Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes grown in some of the most stimulating vineyard plots in the cool-climate winegrowing world.
We do not have our own winery facility. We use shared spaces to produce our wines.
This is both an economical and an environmentally responsible decision to share resources.
Our philosophy is that we don’t have to own the land on paper to do great work with it.
We do not have a tasting room.
Our perspective is that the modern tasting room has become a wine bar and the modern winery hospitality experience has become a restaurant, which takes the focus away from the wine itself.
While we appreciate the tasting experiences of our colleagues in the wine business, our philosophy is that 00 Wines is best experienced when it is the main focus of the moment.
Sometimes we do appear personally at events, tastings, and dinners created by our distributors and business partners in the trade.
When we are working at one of our project locations, sometimes we are able to pour wines and discuss with our current clients.
No we do not have a gifting program.
We do not have an office team or a shipping team.
We are often traveling to various countries that represent our wines, or we are traveling between wine projects for harvest and bottling.
Because we rely on a third-party warehouse for shipping, we cannot oversee a gifting program.
00 Wines does not ship on demand and we’ve found that we don’t have the capacity to ship ordered wines on a tight timeline for gifts.
00 Wines is 100% owned and operated by Chris and Kathryn Hermann.
We do not have investors.
We are a husband and wife team.
00 Wines does not have an office or a customer service team.
No, 00 Wines does not offer pickups for clients in France or Oregon.
We are frequently traveling and we are not available for most of the year to pack and deliver pickups.
00 Wines does produce wine at the Carlton Winemaker’s Studio in Carlton, Oregon.
However, the tasting room at the Carlton Winemaker’s Studio is a standalone business not affiliated with 00 Wines.
Sometimes they may offer tastings or sales of 00 Wines, but the 00 Wines wine company is not involved with their tastings, sales, or shipments.
No we do not have a wine club.
We do have a list of private clients that purchase from us each vintage.
We are currently sold out and on a waitlist.
To join the waitlist, please sign up here.