Drive the Willamette Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — McMinnville, Dundee or Salem — choose the cellar doors you want from the 170 mapped across the valley, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration.
193 stories cover Oregon Pinot country's people and places: as you climb into the Dundee Hills you'll hear how a 1980 tasting on French soil put David Lett's Oregon Pinot Noir two tenths of a point behind Drouhin's own Burgundy — and why Robert Drouhin bought sixty acres on these same hills eight years later. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch on McMinnville's Third Street, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops on the back roads. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.
Portland, United States
The default starting point, roughly 28 miles northeast of the Dundee Hills and the usual gateway into Oregon wine country.
30835 North Highway 99 West, Newberg, United States
A Newberg estate right on Highway 99W, the first major winery sign you meet coming south from Portland.
16800 NE Calkins Ln, Newberg, United States
Founded by David Adelsheim in 1971; his work later drove the creation of the Chehalem Mountains AVA in 2006.
18401 NE Ribbon Ridge Rd, Newberg, United States
One of the recognised producers on Ribbon Ridge, Oregon's smallest AVA at about 3,350 acres and roughly 90 percent Pinot Noir.
15155 NE North Valley Rd, Newberg, United States
The Ribbon Ridge estate co-founded by wine critic Robert Parker's brother-in-law; visits by appointment only.
691 Hwy 99W, Dundee, United States
On Highway 99W in the middle of Dundee, a convenient first taste before the climb into the red hills.
18599 NE Archery Summit Rd, Dayton, United States
A Worden Hill estate with a gravity-flow winery and caves blasted into the volcanic rock beneath it.
16161 NE McDougall Rd, Dayton, United States
One of the largest certified B Corporation wineries in the country, with sweeping views across the Chehalem Valley.
6750 NE Breyman Orchards Rd, Dayton, United States
Built in 1988 after Robert Drouhin of Maison Joseph Drouhin bought sixty Dundee Hills acres; daughter Veronique Drouhin still oversees the wines.
5000 Sokol Blosser Lane, Dundee, United States
A Dayton mainstay among the celebrated names of the Dundee Hills AVA, established in November 2004.
935 NE 10th, McMinnville, United States
Where Oregon wine began: David Lett's winery, now run by his son Jason, housed in a converted turkey-processing building in McMinnville.
15765 SW Muddy Valley Rd, McMinnville, United States
A biodynamic estate in the McMinnville AVA run by the Momtazi family, farming one of North America's largest contiguous biodynamic vineyards.
6060 Bethel Heights Rd NW, Salem, United States
High in the Eola-Amity Hills above Salem, in the path of the cold Pacific wind that pours through the Van Duzer gap each afternoon.
At the north end of Salem on Wallace Road (Highway 221), reached from Highway 22. Roadside parking available.
At the Argyle Winery tasting house on Highway 99W in the centre of Dundee, the main route through town. Roadside and winery parking available.
On NE Third Street, McMinnville's main street, opposite Nick's Italian Cafe. Free public parking one block north on NE Second Street.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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