The Founders Tour
The UC Davis viticulture professors advised not planting grapes in Oregon...
Perfect for Founding Wineries Enthusiasts!
While we can find fantastic, exceptional wine flights at all the wineries, we recommend...
Reveling in extraordinary Wines produced by Oregon’s founding producers of Pinot noir, Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot gris.
The Founder's Tour
We'll tour the Willamette Valley from Dundee to the Chehalem Mountains, Forest Grove and Gaston, and on to McMinnville, visiting up to 10 founding wineries, on a 1, 2 or 3 day event.
Come taste a selection of Oregon wineries, on the Founder's Tour, available year-round.
Let us customize visits to 2-3 or more of the 10 founder wineries where you will learn Oregon Winery History*, and can choose your experience from vineyard walks, wine & food pairings, library wine tastings, or cave/production tours.
A true insiders experience where you may meet a member of the founding family!
Call us to create your custom agenda, or just leave it up to us.
Perfect for Founding Wineries Enthusiasts!
While we can find fantastic, exceptional wine flights at all the wineries, we recommend...
Reveling in extraordinary Wines produced by Oregon’s founding producers of Pinot noir, Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot gris.
The Founder's Tour
We'll tour the Willamette Valley from Dundee to the Chehalem Mountains, Forest Grove and Gaston, and on to McMinnville, visiting up to 10 founding wineries, on a 1, 2 or 3 day event.
Come taste a selection of Oregon wineries, on the Founder's Tour, available year-round.
Let us customize visits to 2-3 or more of the 10 founder wineries where you will learn Oregon Winery History*, and can choose your experience from vineyard walks, wine & food pairings, library wine tastings, or cave/production tours.
A true insiders experience where you may meet a member of the founding family!
Call us to create your custom agenda, or just leave it up to us.
The Wine Bunch...comparing tasting notes, and Pino noirs, that would eventually make the Willamette Valley, into one of the world's great wine growing regions.
The 10 original Willamette Valley families, who famously leaned on one another throughout those early years, for connection, to plant grapes, share equipment, and compare the tasting notes. The spirit of collaboration ran deep.
The 10 original Willamette Valley families, who famously leaned on one another throughout those early years, for connection, to plant grapes, share equipment, and compare the tasting notes. The spirit of collaboration ran deep.
Included are:
- Eyrie vineyards (David Lett).
- Erath vineyards (Dick Erath).
- Adelsheim (David Adelsheim).
- Charles Coury (Charles Coury winery, now David Hill winery) - See picture
- Amity (Myron Redford).
- Sokol Blosser (Bill & Susan Sokol Blosser).
- Elk Cove (Joe and Pat Campbell).
- Ponzi (Dick Ponzi).
- Tualatin Estate (Bill Fuller).
- Oak Knoll (Ron Vuysteke).
- Hillcrest Vineyard (Richard Summers; Umpqua Valley) - Not pictured.