Makk Wine, LLC dba Antica Terra/Coriolis

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About Us

Nestled in the rugged landscape of Oregon's Eola-Amity Hills, Antica Terra is both a place and a philosophy-one that embraces challenge as an essential component of beauty. Here, vines grow in a fractured seabed, deprived of the deep, fertile soils found elsewhere in the Willamette Valley. They struggle against rock and wind, anchored in ancient marine sandstone sown with 40-million-year-old fossils. This natural adversity, coupled with the dramatic diurnal shifts from the Van Duzer Corridor's evening winds, creates an environment where each vine must fight for its place. Despite their decades in the ground, the vines are bonsai-like in their stature, their tiny clusters of thick-skinned berries yielding fruit of intensity, tension, and depth and wines of striking concentration and detail.

Since its founding, Antica Terra has been defined by curiosity and a relentless pursuit of quality. Maggie Harrison's path to Antica Terra was unexpected. She began her winemaking journey as an apprentice in the fermentation hall of Sine Qua Non, where she spent eight years under the guidance of Elaine and Manfred Krankl. In 2005, she was invited to visit Oregon to offer her perspective on a singular vineyard site. She arrived with no intention of staying, but found herself irrevocably drawn to the stark beauty of the place. The fractured rock, the stunted vines, the way the wind moved through the savannah. It was knowably distinct, and offered an opportunity she could not refuse.

Over time, Antica Terra has grown-expanding beyond its original vineyard to include neighboring parcels and more than 80 acres of native oak savannah. The intention remains unchanged; it is not about size, or scale. It is about seeing more, understanding more, doing more. With this expansion comes an ever-greater opportunity to perfect and refine the site's farming, led by Madeleine Rowan-Davis: organic and biodynamic not as a marketing directive, but as a means of fostering resilience and vitality in an already extreme environment.

No single practice defines what happens at Antica Terra. Instead, it is the quiet weight of thousands of small decisions made well, each one shaping the next, season after season. There are no shortcuts, reliance on convention eschewed in favor of attention, refinement, and time. Grapes are sorted by color before pressing; clusters entombed in destemmed fruit to prevent crushing; individual berries removed by scissors; barrels topped with stones collected from glacial runoff to keep them pure from any "foreign" wine...these are just a few of the examples of the tremendous effort that goes into some of Maggie's wines. Every detail matters. Every choice builds on the last.

Beyond the vineyard and cellar, Antica Terra has redefined what it means to share wine. Here, tasting is not a routine, but an immersive experience, a conversation between wine, food, and art meant to challenge and inspire.

At Antica Terra, excellence is never an accident. It is not the result of a single idea, a single technique, or a single moment, but of patience, attention, and the slow accumulation of devotion. It is wine shaped by its place, and by those who are willing to give it the time it asks for.

Certified Products

Features

• Wine Tasting

Acreage

Cropped: 147.0 Acres
Total Acreage: 147.0 Acres

Hours

Open by Appointment Wednesday - Monday