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#WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINES FREE#

Generally, a winery has one tasting flight available.

I find it helpful, when I’m wrapping up at one tasting room, to say, “hey, of all your wines, I really preferred this one most, can you point me to another winery who is doing similar wines?” They are very helpful in referring you (like Netflix’s algorithms but with real people and wine!). You describe it how you taste it, there’s no wrong way.

Sometimes it’s hard to find the “right words” to describe what you are tasting.

#WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINES FREE#

The folks pouring wine love to help you learn whatever you want to learn, so feel free to ask lots of questions, or none at all.

We want you to smell and taste the wine, not the perfume, cologne or scented hand lotion. Your sense of smell is the most important sense for processing taste. Here in Oregon, we’re not fussy about how you do things.

Here are some of our suggestions for having a great experience no matter if you are an old hat or a newbie. Perhaps you are a seasoned wine taster, but maybe not. We’ve included many of our favorite wineries below to help you decide where to visit, but if you’d like us to do the heavy lifting of scheduling, please see our Winery Itinerary Service. Making winery reservations can be a daunting task as there are more than 600 wineries in the Willamette Valley. Also, due to social distancing, wineries have less capacity and most require reservations for tastings. Oregon wineries are requiring masks to be worn by all who are not seated at their tasting table.

If your visit includes going wine tasting, we’d like to let you know that things have changed a bit from past years.

We hope you are looking forward to your upcoming adventures to Chehalem Ridge B&B and Oregon Wine Country. We enjoy learning what each guest is looking for in their wine tasting experience, and then pairing them up with some great wineries. With more than 400 wineries within an hour’s drive of the B&B, we don’t have a single favorite. Bigger reds like Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot don’t typically grow well here because of our night-time cooling winds, but there are folks in the Valley making wine from grapes grown in Southern Oregon or Eastern Washington. There’s a growing production of sparkling wine in the Valley, and enough dessert wine makers out there to keep Kristin and guests at our award winning Oregon B&B, very happy. Pinot Gris and Chardonnay (no, not California-style, Burgundian-style, so try it!) top our white wine production, but Riesling, mostly dry rather than sweet, is out there too. The Willamette Valley specializes in the finicky Pinot Noir, but we don’t stop there. The Willamette Valley has wineries open all year long and every day of the week and they pour great wine, even when we have Oregon’s famous “liquid sunshine”.