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Saffron Fields Vineyard
Koi ponds, a Kurisu-designed Japanese garden, and an art collection inside. The most beautiful tasting room in Yamhill-Carlton.
R. Stuart & Co. Winery
R. Stuart & Co. is your destination for wine tasting in downtown McMinnville, Oregon to experience the Willamette Valley right from your glass. We craft our wines to fit every day and celebration. Whether it’s Tuesday night take out, a Saturday night dinner party, or a Sunday afternoon curled up with a book, you deserve to have classic Oregon wine to add to the moment.
Apolloni Vineyards
Nebbiolo and Sangiovese that actually ripen in Oregon, from a family 150 years into making wine. Bocce out front, dogs welcome, $15 flights.
Ken Wright Cellars
A living testament to Oregon’s wine evolution. Thirteen single vineyards in a restored 1923 train depot in charming downtown Carlton, from the man who wrote the Yamhill-Carlton AVA petition. Ask for the horizontal flight.
Belle Pente Vineyard & Winery
Some of the most graceful Pinot in the valley, at prices that don’t match. Open two weekends a year, otherwise by appointment with Brian and Jill.
Abbott Claim
Fifteenth-century Spanish doors into a cave built in the hillside, barrels resting on bare earth, and a vineyard that produced the number one wine in the world.
Grain Station Brew Works
A restored barn under the old grain towers, with house beer, wood-fired pizza, and a patio worth the walk from Third Street.
Willakenzie Estate
Named for the soil beneath it, planted by a Burgundian who made his money in tech. Six block-designate Pinots and one of the best hilltop views in Yamhill-Carlton.
Vincent Wine Company
A one-man winery in a garage down a back road, making $20 Pinot that shames bottles at three times the price. Bring a jacket.
Bellingar Estates
Chickens, a flower garden, a 1,900-year-old Roman amphora, and no marble pillars anywhere. The least pretentious tasting room in the valley.
Archery Summit
Taste in a quarter mile of caves drilled into the Dundee Hills, from the winery that proved Oregon Pinot could command Napa prices.
Eola Hills Wine Cellars – Legacy Estate
A hilltop estate above Salem with oak-dotted views, rare sparkling Müller-Thurgau, and bold reds you won’t find at the neighbors. Open daily from 12-5pm.
Woodshed Wine Company
Vines from 1978, planted with David Lett’s guidance and Dick Erath’s cuttings. Tastings are free if you book ahead, which at these prices is remarkable.
Carlton Hill Wine Company
Eleven acres, a historic barn, and a winemaker who ages his wine longer than almost anyone. David pours, Walker supervises, and library vintages are usually open.
Dobbes Family Estate
An urban winery in downtown Dundee with a big patio and rotating flights across four AVAs. The house-made corn nuts are not optional.
RAW Cider
Wild-fermented cider and perry from foraged pears and heritage apples. The best break from Pinot in the whole valley.
Brick House Vineyards
Thirty-five years of biodynamic farming on Ribbon Ridge, now in Savannah Mills’s hands. Taste by the fire in a restored barn, with the founder likely to wander in.
Blakeslee Vineyard Estate
Twenty minutes from Portland, on the site that produced Oregon’s first hundred-dollar Pinot. Big windows, Mount Hood, and a White Pinot Noir worth trying.
Ayoub Winery
Four hand-farmed acres, under 2,000 cases, and prices well below what the wines are worth. Mo pours them himself, and locals send visitors here first.
Cubanisimo Vineyards
A Havana-born neurosurgeon making Pinot Noir, with salsa lessons on the calendar. The least stuffy tasting room in the Eola-Amity Hills.
Eminent Domaine
The city took his building, so he bought a vineyard instead. Unobstructed Coast Range views, a fire in winter, and golden hour worth timing your day around.
Six Peaks Wine Company
Five Cascade peaks from a vineyard planted in 1981, a snack plate with every tasting, and five dogs to greet you. Reservations only, and worth it.
Brixeur Spirits
A speakeasy cottage down among the vines, pouring gin from seventeen foraged botanicals and whiskey aged in Pinot barrels. Four guests at a time.
Iterum Wines
Forty years in, Joe Dobbes built Oregon’s second-largest winery and then went back to pouring at his own kitchen table. Book it while you can.
Le Cadeau Vineyard
One rocky hilltop, nineteen clones, and a lineup built to show you how differently the same vineyard can taste. Walkable in downtown Dundee.
Anderson Family Vineyard
Private vertical tastings hosted by the couple who planted the steepest vineyard in Oregon. Under a thousand cases, and Mount Hood out the window.
Denison Cellars
A thousand cases a year and no vineyards of their own. Tim and Denise buy from small family farms across the valley, and usually pour for you themselves.
Brittan Vineyards
Sixteen years at Stags’ Leap, then a windy basalt hillside outside McMinnville. Three single-block Pinots side by side, and a Chardonnay that wins people over.
Bells Up Winery
A tax attorney’s breakdown, a wife’s question, and a former Christmas tree farm on Bell Road. Two hours with Dave, and the valley’s only Seyval Blanc.
Barley & Vine
Sixteen taps, a wall of board games, and the best nachos in Newberg. Open until 10 most nights, which downtown badly needs.
Sequitur
What follows after Beaux Frères. Mike Etzel’s own twelve acres, seventeen clones, and a wood stove in a barn on Ribbon Ridge.
Day Wines
Twenty-five varieties from thirty-two vineyards, most farmed by women. The best place in the valley to drink something that isn’t Pinot.
Argyle Winery
Where Oregon sparkling wine started, in a repurposed hazelnut plant on 99W. Lawn games, a food truck, and a welcome glass of bubbles at the door.
Chehalem Valley Brewing
Newberg’s only brewery, with a long tap list, and a covered patio where kids and dogs are both welcome.
Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery
A 1912 barn on a working hazelnut orchard, brewing saisons with fruit, nuts, and honey from the land around it. Bring a picnic.
iOTA Cellars
Under 1,500 cases from 11.5 acres, poured privately by the family who grew it. Come Thanksgiving weekend for the vertical.
Domaine Willamette
Oregon’s only winery built for nothing but bubbles, with an underground cellar and Mount Hood on the horizon. Learn to saber a bottle while you’re there.
Lenné Estate
Newly renovated tasting room and BnB with spectacular views and the most information-rich vineyard tour in the Willamette Valley.
Durant Vineyards
Fifty years of Dundee Hills farming, Oregon’s only olive mill, and a hilltop view to three mountains. Come for the wine, stay for the olive oil tasting.
Bierly Brewing
A fully gluten-free brewery and kitchen on Third Street, where someone with celiac can order anything on the menu. The donuts convert everyone.
Bryn Mawr Vineyards
Two lawyers bought a basement winery and a rickety tractor in 2009. Sixteen years on, hilltop views, exceptional service, and a lineup that goes well past Pinot.
Lemelson Vineyards
Seven organic vineyards across three AVAs, poured in the shade at the foot of the vines. Zero pressure, and the kind of afternoon that stretches.
Johan Vineyards
Austrian varieties, Demeter biodynamic farming since 2010, and thirty acres of oak savannah preserve. The most adventurous winery in the Van Duzer Corridor.
Ewing Young Distillery
A hidden gem in the heart of Oregon wine country. A woman-owned and operated distillery with a large array of whiskeys, vodkas, a beautiful gin, and a rich aged Oregon rum. Full cocktail menu and flights. Bring your own food.
Andante Vineyard
Aligoté, Gamay, and Sancerre-inspired Sauvignon Blanc from a Van Duzer estate with a real kitchen, a guest house, and cranes on the pond at dusk.
Coleman Vineyard
Planted in 1991 and still family-run. Taste among the barrels or out on the lawn, and come Saturday for the free pizza with your flight.
Laurel Ridge Winery
Second-generation family winery on a hilltop everyone said was wrong. Kira and Lucas pour it themselves, kids and dogs underfoot, and the dessert wines are a revelation.
Perlee
A three-Michelin-star chef left Chicago to cook eight-course lunches here. Sparkling only, $250 or $400, and the most ambitious thing to open in the valley in years.
Rex Hill
A pig farm, then a commune, then one of Oregon’s great wineries. Right where 99W enters wine country, with 180 degrees of window over the Dundee Hills.
Penner-Ash Wine Cellars
One of the best views in the valley, and a flight that spans six sub-AVAs plus Syrah and Viognier you won’t find at neighboring wineries.
ROCO Winery
Oregon’s finest sparkling, poured in a brand-new Carlton hilltop room with a pizza oven. The RMS Brut was Wine Enthusiast’s number one wine in the world.
Domaine Roy & Fils
Panoramic Dundee Hills views, organic estate Pinot from two AVAs, and a tour worth taking. Second generation of the family behind Beaux Frères.
Maysara Winery
Biodynamic wines with cultural depth by an Iranian family that escaped a revolution on a motorcycle and built one of Oregon’s largest biodynamic vineyards. Family-owned and operated since 1997!
Dusky Goose
Three vineyards in an amphitheater around the tasting room, poured side by side with library vintages going back a decade. One of the Dundee Hills’ best views.
RH Estate at Redhawk Vineyard
Old vines, hilltop views over Salem, and Pinot at prices that feel like a mistake. Bring a picnic and stay the afternoon.
Cristom Vineyards
Whole-cluster Pinot in the Burgundian mold since 1992, from eight estate vineyards named for family. The Mount Jefferson Cuvée is a steal.
Sokol Blosser Winery
Oregon’s first tasting room, a certified organic estate, and the Farm & Forage menu. Fifty years in, still family-run and still setting the standard.
Raptor Ridge Winery
Four mountains from the patio, estate Grüner Veltliner, and hawks passing your table. Thirty minutes from Portland and open until 7 on weekends.
Breakside Dundee Beer & Alit Wine Bar
Six Breakside taps and the full Alit wine list under one roof, open until 8. The one stop in Dundee where nobody in your group has to compromise.
Furioso Vineyards
One of the twenty-five most beautiful wineries in the world, with pizza in the yard and a white grape you won’t find anywhere else here.
Winderlea Vineyard & Winery
Vines from 1974, a glass tasting room built for the view, and one of the first four B Corp wineries in the world. Fridays until 7.
Brooks Winery
A full kitchen, five mountains on the horizon, and the deepest Riesling program in Oregon. One of the best tasting rooms in the country, and it earns it.
Styring Vineyards
Nestled in Oregon’s elegant Ribbon Ridge AVA, Styring is off the beaten path, unpretentious, and has been devoted to crafting exceptional wine for 23 years.
Bethel Heights Vineyard
Some of the last own-rooted Pinot vines on earth, planted in 1977 and still farmed by the family. Open daily, and the Chardonnay is exceptional.
White Rose Estate
Whole-cluster Pinot from vines planted around 1980, poured from a room built into the hillside with lavender gardens and Mount Hood beyond.
Roots Wine Co.
Fifteen-dollar tastings, a Pac-Man machine, dogs on the lawn, and a view from the Coast Range to the Cascades. As unpretentious as Oregon wine gets.
Seufert Winery
Four terroirs in one room. No estate vineyard by design, which is exactly what makes the side-by-side flight worth it.
Ruby Vineyard & Winery
Vines from David Lett’s original Eyrie block, planted in 1973. Thirty minutes from Portland, no 99W traffic, and Mount Hood over the vines.
Tendril Wine Cellars
Ten years running Domaine Serene, now his own label in Carlton. The tasting is built as a five-course meal, and it’s worth the hour.
Terra Vina Wines
Cabernet Franc, Tempranillo, Sangiovese. If you’ve had your fill of Pinot, this is the correction — and the Cab Franc has the awards to back it.
Atticus Wine
A private tasting at the winemaker’s own home, hosted in English or Spanish. Under a thousand cases, dry-farmed, and the rosé sells out every year.
The Setting Wines
Oregon Pinot and Napa Cabernet poured side by side, from the winemaker behind the million-dollar bottle. Ten acres of lavender and a bocce court outside.
Utopia Vineyard & Winery
Seventeen dry-farmed acres on Ribbon Ridge, farmed and made by one man. Open daily, fairly priced, and Dan will talk as long as you like.
Yamhill Valley Vineyards
Founded in 1983 off a classified ad reading “Land For Sale, Good For Grapes.” Still family-run, still one of the best decks in the valley.
August Cellars
Six winemakers’ Pinot in one room, right where wine country starts. The Schaads built it three sizes too big so others could use it too.
Chris James Cellars
Sixteen varieties on twenty-five acres, including grapes nobody else in Oregon grows. Fifteen minutes west of Carlton, and the drive is worth it alone.
Purple Hands Winery
Cody Wright joined his father’s cellar crew at ten. Twenty years into his own label, he’s making some of the best Pinot in the Dundee Hills.
EIEIO Wines
Six wines, six glasses, real food, and a winemaker who will become a dear friend. One of the most generous tastings in Yamhill-Carlton.
Lange Estate Winery & Vineyards
Don Lange called Dick Erath’s number off a wine label and moved his family north. Forty years later, the barrel-fermented Pinot Gris he invented is still the benchmark.
Domaine Divio
Burgundy on Ribbon Ridge, including the valley’s only Passetoutgrain. Fireplace inside, heated patio outside, and hospitality people come back for.
Carabella Vineyard
A geologist spent twelve years finding this site, and he’ll walk you through it himself. No tasting room, just the vineyard and a locust grove.
Ponzi Vineyards
A rocket engineer drove north with a piano and four barrels of homemade wine, and founded one of Oregon’s first four wineries. Now owned by Champagne Bollinger.
Crowley Wines
Eighty-five barrels a year from dry-farmed, family-owned vineyards. Quietly one of the most respected names among people who make wine here.
Domaine Serene
They are the only vintners in the world to have both a Pinot Noir and a Chardonnay rank in the top three of Wine Spectator’s Top 100. James Suckling named them one of the fifty greatest wineries in the world.
Coeur de Terre Vineyard
Named for a heart-shaped rock they dug up while planting, with every block named for a woman in the family. Ten minutes from McMinnville and a world away.
Bergström Wines
Josh and Caroline Bergström farm seventy biodynamic acres across three AVAs. Private tastings at Ekollon, one party at a time, above the Dundee Hills.
Harvest Moon Sangria Bar
Oregon’s first sangria bar, from a Newberg native who asked why a valley full of wine only does one thing with it. Flights, tapas, and weekend brunch.
Cramoisi Vineyard
Seven acres on Worden Hill, farmed biodynamically by hand, poured by the woman who grew it. Small, serious, and worth planning around.
The Eyrie Vineyards
Where Oregon wine begins. David Lett planted the first Pinot Noir here in 1965, and his son still makes the wine.
Ambar Estate
A glass-walled room over the vines, the valley’s first Regenerative Organic vineyard, and a four-course pairing people call the best meal of their trip.
Longplay Wine
Aged Pinot and Chardonnay poured at standard prices, with vinyl on the turntable and the winemaker behind the bar. One of the best-value stops in the valley.
Ricochet Wine Company
Gamay, Grüner, and pét-nat poured next to the crush pad. The most interesting room in McMinnville, and the antidote if you’re Pinot’d out.
Walter Scott Wines
A benchmark for site-driven Chardonnay and Pinot Noir—visit via select events and tasting opportunities.
De Ponte Cellars
A living-room tasting room on one of the valley’s oldest vineyards, and the best Melon de Bourgogne in North America.
Dukes Family Vineyards
An accountant who retired at 37 and planted a vineyard instead of opening a restaurant. Twenty-plus years on, Pat and Jackie still come down to say hello.
Björnson Vineyard
The rarest whites in the valley — Aligoté, Auxerrois, and Gouais Blanc — poured beside a limestone fireplace with the Eola-Amity hills out the window.
Dion Vineyard
Fifty-year-old vines, under a thousand cases, and the owners behind the bar. Twenty-five minutes from Portland and worth the whole afternoon.
Lytle-Barnett | Aubaine Wine Lounge
Lytle-Barnett | Aubaine represents the fusion of esteemed Willamette Valley wine brands, Lytle-Barnett and Aubaine. Guests are given full autonomy in selecting wines that are of interest in a “Choose Your Own Adventure” tasting experience. Enjoy any combination of wines available, from a full flight of Chardonnay to a comprehensive line-up of our vintage, traditional method sparkling wines. YOU personalize your path and we’ll lead the way!
Rodeo Hills
Six acres on Worden Hill, and a winemaker who sits down and eats lunch with you. The Long Lunch is one of the valley’s best-kept secrets.
Hawks View Winery
An unobstructed Mount Hood view thirty minutes from Portland, open until 7 with a real food menu and a private terrace for your dog.
Shea Wine Cellars
The vineyard behind a hundred other labels. Planted in 1989 on soil everyone said was wrong, now among the most sought-after fruit in America.
Golden Valley Brewery & Restaurant
McMinnville’s oldest brewery, in a 1920s warehouse with a 24-foot bar salvaged from Portland’s Hoyt Hotel. Order the pretzel and the ten-beer flight.
Kristin Hill Winery
Two retired Army officers stationed near the Mosel came home to make German wine in Oregon. Forty years on, a young family is carrying it forward.
The Valley Room
The Valley Room is a destination designed to celebrate the people, wines, and stories that define the Willamette Valley.
Discover thoughtfully curated collections of wines from our family of brands, paired with seasonal offerings and genuine hospitality. Whether you’re joining us for a tasting, gathering with friends, or attending one of our signature events, The Valley Room offers an experience worth lingering over.
Artist Block
Pop art gallery and tasting room in the Dundee Hills. Rotating artists in residence, and a resident Bengal Cat.
Rose and Arrow Estate
A decade of exploring the geology beneath Willamette Valley vineyards to produce highly specific, small-production wines from individually defined terroir polygons.
Heater Allen Brewing
Lagers so good people drive an hour from Portland for them, made in the middle of Pinot country since 2007. Order the Pils.
Nysa Vineyard
They cellar the wine for you. Aged Pinot poured alongside current vintages, high in the Dundee Hills, by appointment only.
Trisaetum Winery & Art Gallery
A painter’s winery on Ribbon Ridge, with six Rieslings, ten Pinots, sparkling, house spirits, and a gallery of his work. The Riesling converts skeptics.
Varnum Vintners
Oregon’s first non-alcoholic wine, alongside excellent Riesling and sparkling. The rare tasting room where nobody in your group gets left out.
Résonance Dundee Hills Tasting Room
Louis Jadot’s first project outside Burgundy, in a reclaimed-barn salon on the 45th parallel. Taste Oregon and Burgundy side by side.
Ridgecrest
The first vineyard ever planted on Ribbon Ridge, poured in a converted farmhouse by the family who planted it. The whites are the surprise.
Hazelfern
A converted horse barn, an eighteen-foot farm table, and owners who pour it themselves. Minutes from Newberg and it feels like nowhere.
Stickmen Brewing
Wood-fired pizza, 28 taps, and a patio that rolls open to the street. Trivia, bingo, and Thursday live music make it a proper weeknight spot.
Lachini Vineyards
A Tuscan villa on forty-five biodynamic acres, with valley views, farm animals, and chef-prepared lunches. Book ahead.
Haakon Lenai Vineyard & Tasting Room
Five hundred cases from one Dundee Hills vineyard, named for the winemaker’s kids. You can’t buy these anywhere else.
Lundeen Wines
Sparkling aged four, six, even ten years on the lees, from a family operation most people have never heard of. One of the valley’s best-kept secrets.
J.K. Carriere Wines
Acid-driven Pinot built for the table, on a hilltop with Mount Hood in the distance. The wasp on the label has put him in the ICU more than once.
Granville Wines
Second-generation Dundee winegrowers, from a family that helped plant this valley. Estate vineyard was established in 1972, a fireplace at the top of Jory Lane, and mountains on the horizon.
Trout Lily Ranch
Family estate planted in 1976 on the Chehalem Mountains. Old-vine Pommard Pinot plus Gamay, Trousseau, and Sauvignon Blanc. Farmhouse tastings by appointment.
Bledsoe | McDaniels Winery
Willamette Pinot and Walla Walla Syrah poured side by side in a private hilltop farmhouse, with rooms to rent upstairs. Mount Hood out the window.
David Paige Wines
Seventeen years making Adelsheim’s wine, now making his own on a volcanic ridge in the Eola-Amity Hills. Small, personal, and Dave usually pours.
Day by Day Bar
Friendly cocktails and cheap beer inside Mac Market, from two people who decided over drinks to just start a bar. The mocktails are worth the stop too.
Remy Wines
Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, and Lagrein in the heart of Pinot country, from a farmhouse where everyone’s genuinely welcome. Twenty years and still the most interesting list in the valley.
Beckham Estate Vineyard
A ceramics teacher saw a photo of Italian amphorae and said “I can make those.” Now he’s the only person in North America making them, and the wine inside is extraordinary.
Stoller Family Estate
A turkey farm turned into the largest vineyard in the Dundee Hills, by a man who patched its fences as a teenager. Walk-ins always welcome.
Antica Terra
Oregon’s most celebrated winery, where the James Beard-winning food matches the cult Pinot. Book A Very Nice Lunch and clear your afternoon.
Parrett Mountain Cellars
One of the first tasting rooms you hit as you enter into Oregon Wine Country. Big reds in Pinot country, poured in a cedar lodge with a treehouse deck. Walk-ins welcome.
Soter Vineyards
A Napa legend came home to farm 250 biodynamic acres. The Provisions tasting, built from the ranch’s own garden, is one of the best meals in the valley.
Rain Dance Vineyards
A remodeled 1926 farmhouse with a fire pit patio, walking distance from The Allison. Great whites, monthly vineyard hikes, and llamas on the property.
Coattails
The Etzel brothers brewing beer inside their family’s winery — the first Oregon wine family to try it since the Ponzis started BridgePort.
Cho Wines
Two Santa Monica buskers who started a winery in the pandemic and now make some of Oregon’s best sparkling. Big views, warm welcome, and a play area for the kids.
Branch Point Distillery
Branch Point Distillery in Dayton. Grain-to-glass Oregon whiskey with tastings and barrelhouse moments—check site for current options.
Chehalem Estate Tasting Room
Thirty minutes from Portland, open daily, with a full kitchen and four decades of Willamette history in the glass.
Limited Addition Wines
Twenty-plus varieties and barely any Pinot. Oregon’s only female Master of Wine is betting the valley’s future on diversity, and the wines make the case.
Domaine Lumineux
Coppola’s Oregon winery, pouring Dundee Hills estate wines from an 1890s Victorian downtown and walking distance to other shops and restaurants.
Corollary Wines
Oregon’s only estate winery devoted entirely to bubbles, in a red pavilion you can see from 99W. Five cases of garage cider started it.
Beacon Hill Winery & Vineyard
Tony Soter planted it, a Mexican-Oregonian couple bought it on a Sunday drive, and now they’re making the best Albariño in the valley.
Gran Moraine Winery
Some of Oregon’s best sparkling, from a winemaker who picks earlier than anyone thinks he should. Open daily.
Torii Mor Winery
A Japanese garden in the Dundee Hills, vines older than most of the valley, and a deck where you can bring your own lunch.
Root & Rye Hop Farm and Brewery
A farm-fresh brewing journey from our estate hops to the glass in your hand!
Et Fille Wines
A father and daughter co-founded the winery in 2003. She’s run it alone since he died, and the wines are scoring in the nineties.
Caravan Coffee
Caravan Coffee is a working roastery and tasting room in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where coffee is meant to be experienced, not just consumed. Through thoughtful roasting, genuine hospitality, and immersive tastings and experiences, we connect people more deeply to the coffee in their cup—and to the people and places behind it.
Come curious. Leave knowing coffee a little differently.
Left Coast Estate
Wood-fired pizza, hiking trails through old-growth oak savanna, and three single-clone Pinots poured side by side. Open until 8 on Fridays.
Elk Cove Vineyards
The first winery in Yamhill-Carlton, still family-run fifty years on. Single-vineyard Pinot, aromatic whites, and one of the best views in the Coast Range foothills.
Beaux Frères
A foreclosed pig farm bought with a critic’s money in 1986, now one of Oregon’s great estates. Taste in the converted barn with the goats uphill.
Cooper Mountain Vineyards
The Northwest’s first biodynamic winery, ten miles from Portland. Rare Tocai Friulano, second-generation family, and no 99W traffic to get there.
Wolves & People Bar & Music Hall
Bar and live music venue from Wolves & People in Newberg’s oldest building. Fifteen taps, guest beers, BBQ, and a stage built for Americana, bluegrass, psych rock, jazz, and more.
Bella Vida 360
Aged Dundee Hills Pinot made by four different winemakers, poured on a Yamhill hilltop with views in every direction.
Youngberg Hill Inn & Winery
Nine rooms on a fifty-acre hilltop, biodynamic vines, and a view Wayne Bailey says you won’t want to leave. Ten minutes from McMinnville’s Third Street.
Native Flora
Three tastings a day, eight people max, poured by the owners in their own home. They planted the wrong side of the hill and proved everyone wrong.
Angela Estate
Estate Yamhill-Carlton Pinot beside South African bubbles, from a vineyard Ken Wright planted. Walkable in downtown Dundee, and better value than the neighbors.
The Carlton Winemakers Studio
Eric Hamacher changed state law to build this. Fifteen winemakers, one tasting room, and the widest range you’ll taste in a single stop.
Killdeer Distilling
Punk-rock farmers making whiskey, gin, and absinthe in a converted bull barn on Ribbon Ridge. Sheep outside, cornhole out back.
Approachment Wine Company
Skin-contact Pinot Gris, carbonic Gamay, and Grenache from two young winemakers making their own rules. Small, casual, and by appointment.
Lucidwild Estate
A jellyfish speakeasy, a wine cave, and Valais sheep you can hand-feed, on 28-year-old dry-farmed vines. Nothing else in the valley is doing this.
Compris Vineyard
An Apollo physicist planted it, and Dru and Erin made it a place where everyone belongs. Hilltop views and a vineyard cat named Otis.
Evensham Wood | Haden Fig
Two labels, one dry-farmed estate, and forty years of doing it the hard way. Walk-ins welcome, which for wine this good is close to unheard of.
Grochau Cellars
Food wines from a sommelier who spent fourteen years at Higgins before making his own. Beaujolais-method Tempranillo, natural bottlings, and no oak to hide behind.
Ruby Vineyard & Winery
Vines from David Lett’s original Eyrie block, planted in 1973. Thirty minutes from Portland, no 99W traffic, and Mount Hood over the vines.
Evesham Wood | Haden Fig
Two labels, one dry-farmed estate, and forty years of doing it the hard way. Walk-ins welcome, which for wine this good is close to unheard of.
Bull Run Distillery – Carlton Post Tasting Room
Portland whiskey poured on Main Street in Carlton, including bottles you can’t get anywhere else. The break your palate needs after a day of Pinot.
Harper Voit Wines
The valley’s benchmark Pinot Blanc, plus single-vineyard Pinots under 100 cases each. Book the salon and taste what a consulting winemaker makes for himself.
L’Angolo Estate
Five estate wines and a serious antipasto spread by the fire. One of the rare tasting rooms where the kids and the dog are both welcome.
Big Table Farm
One group at a time, eight wines, and an hour at an actual big table in an artist’s studio. Book well ahead — there are only six seatings a week.
The Cellar at the Black Walnut Inn & Vineyard
Garden cocktails and a short, excellent menu on a vineyard patio at golden hour. The place to land after a day of tasting — and kids are welcome here.
Privé Vineyard
Some of the oldest vines in the Chehalem Mountains, and a tasting room small enough to feel like someone’s home. Old-vine Pinot, hosted personally.
Natalie’s Estate Winery
Named for a one-year-old in 1999, and still hosted by the couple who founded it. Estate Pinot alongside big reds you won’t find elsewhere in the valley.
Sineann
Forty-plus harvests, two hemispheres, and a tasting room that’s really a lab. Come for the Zinfandel as much as the Pinot.
Domaine Drouhin Oregon
Burgundy and Oregon poured side by side from the same family, in a gravity-flow winery built into the hilltop. Book ahead and be on time.
Patricia Green Cellars
Twenty-plus single-vineyard Pinots from Oregon’s historic sites, poured by a fire on Ribbon Ridge. The deepest terroir lesson in the valley.
Fox Farm Vineyards
Mom & Pop winery, and usually Pop is pouring…
Open until seven nearly every day,
$25 flights, and Reservations are Rewarded!
Alexana Winery
Eighteen soil types on one estate, and wines built to show you the difference. One of the most geologically diverse vineyards anywhere.
Anacréon Winery
A five-course paired menu under a pergola, or a private five-wine flight with the owners. Organic, dry-farmed, and under a thousand cases a year.
Adelsheim Vineyard
The first winery in the Chehalem Mountains, and the man who wrote the AVA petitions that put this valley on the map. Fifty years on, still one of the best stops out here.
Van Duzer Vineyards
Two AVAs in one flight, steps from downtown Dundee. Bring the kids, the dog, and a sandwich from Merenda across the lot.
Arlyn Vineyard
Ninety minutes on a working biodynamic farm with Highland cattle, rare Swiss sheep, and a vineyard dog named Cooper. Janis hosts every tasting herself.
Winter’s Hill Estate
Three generations, and half the land given over to bees and oak savanna. Bring a picnic, taste in the working winery, and don’t skip the port.
Ayres Vineyard & Winery
A wine shop owner from Kansas City spent six years learning at Domaine Drouhin, then made his own on Ribbon Ridge. Brad still pours it himself.
Matzinger Davies Wine Company
No tasting fee, no appointment, and two of Oregon’s most accomplished winemakers behind the label. Columbia Gorge Sauvignon Blanc you won’t find elsewhere.
Nicolas-Jay Winery
Burgundy grand cru winemaking applied to Oregon fruit, poured privately by a team that never rushes. One of the valley’s great tastings.
Summon Coffee
Open at 6 AM every day, across from Linfield. Specialty coffee shop with a bakery attached.
J. Christopher / Appassionata Estate
Pinot Noir held up to ten years before release, from the German icon behind Dr. Loosen. Two labels, one gravel lane, and views worth the drive.
North Valley Vineyards
One flight, six AVAs. The fastest way to work out which corner of the valley you actually like before planning the rest of your trip.
Late Sky Wine
One group at a time, in a glass-walled room above the vines. Andy and Stephanie pour, and the place is entirely yours for the afternoon.
Aubaine Wine
Estate-only Chardonnay and Pinot from the Eola-Amity Hills, poured in Dundee with no fixed flight. You set the running order.
Bravuro Cellars
The only Oregon winery bringing California fruit north for big reds, and the best stop in the valley if that’s your thing.
Evening Land Vineyards
Seven Springs, planted 1984 under a Burgundy legend’s direction, now farmed biodynamically by Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman. Tastings by the fire in a cabin.
Alloro Vineyard
A Tuscan farmhouse in the Chehalem Mountains with sheep, cattle, olive trees, and a wheat field planted for pasta. The food is from the farm.
Hamacher Wines
The closest Willamette winery to Portland, and one of the few pouring ten-year-old Pinot at standard prices. Bocce out front, big trees, no rush.