WINERIES

Alexana Winery & Vineyards

Dr. Madaiah Revana’s love of the great wines from Burgundy launched a search for the perfect piece of land in the Willamette Valley. Today, Alexana’s Revana Vineyard is one of the most unique in the US, with 18 soil types found within 55 acres in the Dundee Hills. Dr. Revana’s boyhood on a farm in India gave him an appreciation for the rhythms of the land. He recognizes the depth of knowledge needed to succeed with a specialized crop. Alexana wines receive the highest of accolades every year.

Björnson Vineyard

Björnson’s 28-acre estate vineyard has neighboring forests, creeks and riparian areas—a passionate conservation effort by the owners. The estate’s wile areas support the vineyard with cleaner water, better wildlife habitat, integrated pest management, and reduced soil erosion. In line with sustainable farming practices, owners Pattie and Mark Björnson approach wine making with minimal handling, preferring to let Mother Nature do her part. Cooling marine breezes (known as the “Van Duzer Winds”) create grapes with smaller, thicker skins and a higher concentration of flavor. The result: wines with a darker fruit profile, good tannins and bright acidity – providing complexity on the pallet and longevity in the cellar.

Eola Hills Wine Cellars

In the early 1980’s, Tom Huggins, an agricultural insurance specialist, convinced a handful of close friends and family members to invest in a dream. The group purchased a 35-acre wheat field on Oak Grove Road, just a few miles west of Salem, on a site Tom felt was ideal for growing grapes.

Together, they prepared the site and learned how to stake and train the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines, then harvest, sort, and crush the grapes that became the winery’s first 1,500 cases in 1986. It was hard work, it was fun, and the wine was terrific.

Today, Eola Hills Wine Cellars is still locally owned and operated and is one of Oregon’s largest wineries, farming over 325 acres of prime vineyard land. Production now surpasses 80,000 cases of fine wines that capture the spirit and flavors of Oregon.

Ponzi Vineyards

Established in 1970, Ponzi Vineyards was among the first founding wineries to put the Willamette Valley on the map as a world-class wine region. In 2021, Ponzi was acquired by the venerated Champagne producer Bollinger, bringing new opportunity and energy to the brand.

The pioneering spirit of Ponzi Vineyards is as alive as ever, as they continue to elevate the elemental into exceptional, celebrating the purest expressions of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grown in the renowned Laurelwood District AVA.

Project M Wines

PROJECT M is the vision of Meg and Jerry Murray. With more than 30 years of collective wine industry experience, they craft precise and elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Rosé and Riesling from distinctive sites in the Willamette Valley. The mission of PROJECT M is to enhance their customer’s quality of life. Meg and Jerry create wines that aim to facilitate the shared experience of beauty. They believe that a great farmer can squeeze every drop of potential from every opportunity by making the right decisions at the right time. PROJECT M works with growers of premium fruit in the Willamette Valley, all of whom share the same deep respect and reverence for the land.

Purple Hands

Native to Oregon’s vineyards and farmland, owners Cody and Marque Wright are most intrigued by wines that reveal the history of their local landscape. Winemaker Cody has been in the cellar his whole life—with stints at home and abroad—and has followed in the footsteps of his father, Ken Wright. All Purple Hands wines undergo native fermentation and remain unrefined and unfiltered at bottling to preserve their natural, wild character. Achieving elegance in this pursuit is the passion and art of their craft.

Sokol Blosser Winery

When Susan Sokol and Bill Blosser planted their first vines in the Dundee Hills AVA of the Willamette Valley 1971, there was no wine industry in Oregon. Sokol Blosser has grown and prospered as a family-owned and run operation, and is proud to have a hand in developing and shaping Oregon’s now prominent wine industry.

Sokol Blosser creates wines of world class quality that are produced sustainably, mindful of the environment, and express the distinctive flavors of their hillside vineyards.

Stoller Family Estate

Over the last 30 years, the Stoller family has patiently transformed their 400-acre property into the largest contiguous vineyard in Oregon’s Dundee Hills. They control every step of the wine-growing and winemaking process, from pruning to bottling and everything in between. The result is award-winning wines that are balanced, complex, and consistently exceptional.

Stoller was the first winery in the world to receive LEED Gold certification, attesting that our winery is sustainably built and environmentally friendly. We are honored to be ranked on the USA Today 10 Best Tasting Rooms Reader’s Choice poll in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, and Oregon’s Most Admired Winery by the Portland Business Journal for eight consecutive years.

Van Duzer Vineyards

In 1998, Carl and Marilynn Thoma helped open up a new frontier of Oregon’s Willamette Valley when they chose a wild, beautiful, out-of-the-way place, where the winds blew just right.

Perched upon a windy knoll in Dallas, Oregon, the vineyards lie in the direct path of the cooling marine winds that rush through a deep gap in the coastal range—the Van Duzer corridor.

Their instinct told them that extraordinary wines could be produced in these challenging conditions, and that climate was going to be the most important element affecting the style of wines.

Over the last 25 years, their intuition and risk-taking has paid off, producing world-class wines that are nuanced and expertly balanced with lightness and intensity.

Willamette Valley Vineyards

Jim Bernau, founder and CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyards, began building his Oregon wine dream from a young age. A native Oregonian, Bernau’s journey started from winemaking at home to studies at UC Davis to time spent in Beaune, France.

Ultimately, his path led back to the fertile Willamette Valley. Unable to afford drip irrigation, he watered the vines in his newly planted Estate vineyard using 17 lengths of 75’ garden hose to get the grapelings through their first summer! Today, Willamette Valley Vineyards is internationally recognized as a premium producer of Pinot Noir, and the wine is truly a collaborative effort of the entire vineyard and winemaker staff.