Moe Momtazi | Source | Founder/Owner at Maysara Winery & Momtazi Vineyard

Moe Momtazi is the founder of Maysara Winery and Momtazi Vineyard in McMinnville Oregon. An immigrant who escaped Iran after the revolution with his then-pregnant wife, Flora, he and his three daughters have created one of the largest estates in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Using the ancient wisdom he was taught about agriculture growing up in Iran, Moe farms the land using a nature-to-nature philosophy on the macro and micro levels, with Demeter Biodynamic Certification under his belt for both the vineyard and the winery. He is a wealth of information about biodynamics, agriculture, the effects of climate change, wine and low-intervention winemaking, aging wines the old world way, as well as Persian culture, Zoroastrian agriculture, and the history of Iran.