In September Beth and I spent a few lovely days exploring Portland, Oregon and four great days tasting wines in the Willamette Valley. We had been looking forward to doing this trip for several, years and it fully lived up to our expectations. We definitely plan to come back for another visit.
The seven estates we visited are:
- Willamette Valley Vineyards: https://www.wvv.com/
- WillaKenzie Estate: https://www.willakenzie.com/
- Gran Moraine: https://www.granmoraine.com/
- Penner-Ash Wine Cellars: https://www.pennerash.com/
- Resonance: https://resonancewines.com/
- Domaine Drouhin: https://domainedrouhin.com/
- Audeant: https://www.audeant.com/
Writing up all the great visits we had with some pictures, and letting you know about the over 50 different wines we tasted ended up being pretty long so I am attaching it as a PDF for you to download and read at your leisure. When I include pictures I never know what you will be seeing if you are using your phone, a tablet, or a PC to view it. With the PDF the pictures will be in the right place. I also have an attachment of all the wines that we tasted that are available through the websites above. There are 45 wines on this list because some of the wines we got to taste are ones that are not listed on their websites.
I would really love to get some feedback on this approach of just having a short summary in the post and lots more details in attachments that you can pullup to read, and also download if you want to keep them, is better than having everything is the blog post. I hope you find this interesting and consider visiting the Willamette Valley for some great wine tasting.
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