Hello and welcome, My name is Scott Frank and Bow & Arrow is my interpretation of the Willamette Valley’s humble terroir. The most important parts of that equation are the Willamette Valley and “humble.” Our growing region is frequently approached as a grand terroir destined to produce prestigious wines with an implicit Burgundian influence. I’m honored to make wine here. Still, the valley I know and love is as much a blue-collar agricultural area as it is a boutique wine destination. It’s as much a collection of relatively simple, clay dominated soils as it is home to multi-generation family estates and renowned AVA’s. Bow & Arrow uses a different template to explore this different, simpler side of the Willamette Valley. Instead of Burgundy, we pay homage to the refreshing and decidedly working class wines of France’s Loire Valley. I’m certainly not the first person to have this notion. Loire Valley grape varieties like Melon, Chenin Blanc, and Gamay were planted in the Willamette Valley decades before I moved here from New York in 2001. As a newly immigrated grocery store wine buyer in Portland, I was always excited when local winemakers shared their interpretations of these less typical grapes. I fantasized about creating my own winery devoted exclusively to such wines. Even after one of Oregon’s great contemporary Pinot Noir and Chardonnay masters, John Paul of Cameron Winery, drafted me as his unproven assistant winemaker in 2007, the thought of bottling Loire Valley varieties was never far away. So, in 2010 we — my amazing wife Dana, a tireless army of local supporters, and me — actually made it happen. We bootstrapped it for the first few years but today, Bow & Arrow is a full fledged, subterranean winery located in Northeast Portland. We source our fruit from a small group of reliably outstanding farmers who were willing to take a risk grafting or planting the varieties we needed and to farm them in a way that was aligned with our beliefs. While there is no one “house style”, we embrace a principal of drinkability and low-intervention; a humble word that embodies the spirit of wine drinking we celebrate. Thanks for visiting our site, Scott Frank Owner/Winemaker

The Azienda Agricola Poggio di Bortolone was founded by the Cosenza Family at the end of the eighteenth century, immediately after Sicily’s transition out of feudalism and the annexation by mainland Italy. Since that time it has been passed down from father to son and today Pierluigi Cosenza, Ignazio's son, is the current owner and manager of the Poggio di Bortolone Estate. Whilst embracing the long established Family traditions, introducing fresh and innovative ideas to build on the successes of the past. The land has been used for the cultivation of grapes, olives and wheat over many centuries and today the winery's ancient wooden press and traditional oil mill are to be found amongst the relics of bygone days to remind visitors of the proud origins of the Estate. The old and now redundant limestone watermill, beside the river Para Para, is being lovingly restored to its former splendour and is yet another reminder of past traditions which continued right up until to the end of World War II. Around 1970 Ignazio Cosenza, current owner's father, decided to give the Family business a new direction which heralded the beginning of the modern Estate which is known today as Poggio di Bortolone, a name derived from a Sicilian expression, Puoiu ri Burtuluni, describing an Estate whose origins are found on the top of a small hill. In the 1980s was introduced a new Ignazio's vision of a modern Estate began to be realised. In 1982 was bottled the first vintage of Cerasuolo wine, Poggio di Bortolone, with its historic label depicting U Puoiu with the manor house and the cellars. In 1984, he began to produce the Contessa Constanza, which proved even more popular than his previous creation. Throughout the remaining years of the 1980s, he introduced a number of innovations in the cellars, by replacing the traditional oak and chestnut vats with stainless steel versions to enable the Cosenza winery to the international market. The 1990s witnessed a plethora of new experiments both in the vineyard and in the cellar. New varietals were planted new grapes including Syrah, Cabernet sauvignon and Petit Verdot, the quality of the Petit Verdot became noticed by research institutions and the Estate was invited ultimately participate in a major experimental project. In the same period a succession of new wines emerged, namely, Pigi in 1998, Petitverdò in 2001 and Addamanera in 2002. The Estate also experimented with the use of Bordeaux barriques style barrels, to improve the ageing process of the wine, the best example of which was il Para Para in 1999. Since then there has been a steady increase in the number of productions and awards, the pinnacle of which took place in the summer of 2005. Thanks to the dedication, and hard work of the Cosenza family, the Estate has obtained the Denomination of Origin Controlled and Guaranteed (DOCG) Cerasuolo di Vittoria; following a major rebuilding project and the installation of modern plant and machinery in 2009, a new 'state of the art' winery has been created, which operates totally underground to take the fullest advantage of optimal temperature and humidity control to ensure the proper ageing of the wines.