Winter Touring
season in the Oregon Wine Country
The beautiful
Willamette Valley is especially beautiful in winter. If
you thought visiting wineries was only a fair-season pastime, think again!
Pacific Northwest wineries with winter hours are abundant, with most open
year-round. Now is a perfect time
to explore a variety of wineries and plenty of Northwest wines. You are
sure to receive more personal attention, face no crowds, and enjoy a
refreshing
break
from your winter routine.
For your touring pleasure, we have
compiled a list of top-notch wineries that welcome your visit... rain or
shine or snow. So what are you waiting for? Plan your winter
getaway today!
North Willamette Valley
In
the northern portion of Oregon’s
Willamette Valley, from about Portland to Salem, most wineries
keep their doors open year-round, presenting a wealth of options for
memorable winter wine touring experiences. Heading
south from Portland, on Highway 99, you’ll come to humble but mighty Winter's Hill Vineyard. The winery’s tasting room, open
weekends from 12
pm-5 pm in the winter,
is where Peter, Emily, Russell, and Delphine
Gladhart are growing the finest grapes, harvesting them at optimum ripeness,
and crafting the best wines possible
-- a sure cure for cabin fever.
From the start of the growing season to the
final production of the wines, it's their family's work, pride, and joy.
Some
other wineries near Winter's Hill we may suggest include Domaine Serene,
Domaine Drouhin, Vista Hills, Archery Summit, White Rose and DePonte as well as many others
all open during the wintertime.
Not far from all of them is Torii Mor
Not far from Winter's
Hill is another family-owned and operated winery – Torii Mor Vineyards, one of Oregon’s oldest
vineyards. Owner Donald Olson
says winter can be the perfect time to visit the winery’s tasting room,
which is open daily from 11 am-5 pm.
“Visiting
us during the off-season is great if you want individual attention from our
staff, since we have fewer people through the tasting room. The scenery is
amazing during all seasons, but from the tasting room in winter, you can watch the
storms roll in and out of our valley...it's quite ominous!”
Some
other wineries near Torii Mor we may suggest include Lange, Erath, Maresh,
Joe Dobbes, Argyle and others
all open during the wintertime.
Torii Mor is offering 20-30% off case purchases through January '09.
"If you would test the soul of a friend, take
him into the wilderness and rub elbows with him for five months! One of
three things will surely happen: You will hate each other afterward with
that
enlightened hatred which is seasoned with contempt; you will emerge with the
contempt tinged with a pitying toleration, or you will be close,
unquestioning friends to the last six feet of earth--and beyond. All these
things will cabin fever do,
and more. It has committed murder, many's the time. It has driven
men crazy. It has warped and distorted character out of all
semblance to its former self. It has sweetened love and killed
love. There is an antidote . . ." *
* Cabin Fever by B. M. Bower
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