WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINE TASTING, DUNDEE HILLS AVA

TOUR DETAILS

• Start Time
  9:45am
• Finish Time
  6:00ish
• Meeting Place
  I can pick up anywhere outside the Portland City Limits. For those living in Portland, we can choose a location near you, but still outside the city limits. (Sorry for the inconvenience, but has to do with red tape between my insurance provider and Portland/PBOT)
• Price
  Base Fee: $540 (6 tickets), then $90 per person after that.
  (All wine and sightseeing tours are based on $90 per persons except Coastal Tours.)
• Included
  Water and snacks.
• Not included
  Winery tasting fees vary from place to place and the cost depends which flight you choose to try, so you are responsible for your own tasting fees.
• Lunch options
  You are more than welcome to bring food on the bus. Some wineries allow outside food and others do not. For an extra fee, most of the wineries will offer a charcuterie plate/board and some even offer full lunches, it depends on the winery. I can also recommend some really good delis. You would have to order the day before and have it ready for pick up the morning of the tour.
• Tasting rooms
  The tour includes 3 of the wineries listed below depending on their availability. If you have a preference for one or more over the others, please let us know and we will see what we can arrange.

THE WINERIES

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DURANT VINEYARD WINERY AND RED RIDGE OLIVE OIL TASTING

Take in an amazing view of the Cascade Mountains while enjoying a flight of full-bodied wines at the Durant Vineyards wine tasting room. Then stroll over to their Oregon Olive Mill tasting room and gift shop and enjoy tasting an assortment of fine olive oils and vinegars.

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WINTER’S HILL ESTATES WINERY

Winter’s Hill Vineyard is an Estate winery located in the Dundee Hills. Thirty-five acres of vineyards are nestled into a 150 acre farm including fir and oak forests. Farming this land has been a privilege, and they have followed sustainable farming practices. They have been certified by LIVE and SalmonSafe in recognition of their efforts. The first wines bearing their name were 298 cases of 1998 Pinot Noir. Their production has grown slowly and steadily as wine lovers in the Northwest and around the country have discovered their Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and dessert wines such as Golden Nectar.

3

STOLLER ESTATE VINEYARDS

Stoller winery’s LEED Gold and LIVE certified winery combines progressive, environmentally-friendly design with gentle, traditional winemaking practices that minimize their environmental impact, making them one of the premiere sustainable wineries in the Pacific Northwest, and the first LEED Gold Certified winery in the world.

All of their wine is made exclusively from their estate vineyard. They pick, process, ferment and age each individual section of fruit separately before blending. Their gravity flow technology offers a gentler approach to transferring the wine from tank to barrel, as well as greatly reducing the amount of energy required for wine production.

Their winery produces wines that are elegant, showing ripe red to darker fruits as well as earthy qualities. Their grape varieties, age of the vine, location, and density bring an amazing diversity of flavors to their wines. They are beautifully textured and layered with fine, silky tannins. Vintage can change the expression of their wines, but never overpower their character

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SOKOL BLOSSER WINERY

“Pinot Noir grape is one temperamental fruit.” For Pinot Noir to become a world-class wine there must be a level of care and commitment that goes beyond that of any other varietal. At Sokol Blosser, that includes carefully hand harvesting, fermentation in small lots and aging 16 months in French oak barrels. They hand sort through every grape before it goes into a fermenter - for Pinot Noir, the grapes are de-stemmed without crushing, to preserve as many whole berries as possible. For white varietals, the grapes are whole-cluster pressed.

5

DOMAINE SERENE

Enjoy the elegance of the French inspired tasting room of Domaine Serene. Relax and enjoy a flight of their exceptional wines. Domaine Serene produces wines from 6 individual vineyard estates to produce some wonderful complete Pinot Noirs and Chardonnay. You won't be disappointed.

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DOMAINE DROUHIN

Domaine Drouhin Oregon crafts Pinot Noir and Chardonnay cuvées that favor balance, elegance and finesse, hallmarks of the Drouhin family’s 130+ years of experience in Burgundy. For nearly 30 years, the Drouhin Family has brought a wealth of hard-earned experience to their vineyards in the Dundee Hills.

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