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WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY such a uniquely successful wine-growing region? I suppose, to answer that question, one has to consider that great and amorphous term terroir.

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A CENTURY BEFORE GEOLOGISTS BEGAN laying out the essentials of Willamette Valley terroir, fixating over floods, and ice dams, and decades before the first wagons arrived along the Oregon Trail, the future of Old Oregon w...

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The winemaker is no more than an intermediary between the soil and the wine, and should interfere as little as possible.

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Richard planted hope in Oregon soil when no one believed it would grow. Every vineyard in the Willamette stands on that first act of faith.

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We wanted to be part of this great experiment – creating an Oregon wine industry.

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Oregon and Washington don’t just share a border—they share a wine story. On this journey, we’ll follow the Columbia River eastward, tracing dramatic cliffs, high desert plains, and vineyards tucked into valleys that prod...

","url":"https://peterbaxter.wine/multi-day-tours/f/from-gorge-to-desert-four-days-of-wine-in-the-pacific-northwest","title":"From Gorge to Desert: Four Days of Wine in the Pacific Northwest","summary":"Oregon and Washington don’t just share a border—they share a wine story. On this journey, we’ll follow the Columbia River eastward, tracing dramatic cliffs, high desert plains, and vineyards tucked into valleys that prod...","date_modified":"2025-08-31T02:14:09Z"},{"id":"https://peterbaxter.wine/multi-day-tours/f/through-oregon%E2%80%99s-wine-valleys-a-fine-wine-food-journey","html_content":"

This itinerary takes us south from Portland into the Willamette Valley, onward into the Umpqua, and finally into the Applegate and Rogue regions. Expect boutique inns, curated tastings, fine dining, and a steady rhythm o...

","url":"https://peterbaxter.wine/multi-day-tours/f/through-oregon%E2%80%99s-wine-valleys-a-fine-wine-food-journey","title":"Through Oregon’s Wine Valleys: A Fine Wine & Food Journey","summary":"This itinerary takes us south from Portland into the Willamette Valley, onward into the Umpqua, and finally into the Applegate and Rogue regions. Expect boutique inns, curated tastings, fine dining, and a steady rhythm o...","date_modified":"2025-08-31T01:26:50Z"},{"id":"https://peterbaxter.wine/multi-day-tours/f/domaine-serene","html_content":"

At first, we were all very close together because there was just a small number and we all shared equipment and experience, but as it got bigger, and particularly as people with a lot of money came in who weren't do-it-...

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A Pictorial Journey to Silver Falls State Park

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A Pictorial Tour of the Evergreen Air & Space Museum

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AS I HAVE SAID OFTEN, and will no doubt say again, researching the provenance of any particular winery or wine-maker requires that one labor through the insufferably floral verbiage that seems almost de rigueur in the co...

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There is little in our contemporary world that has not been touched by the creative genius of Jerome Lemelson. Barcode readers and cordless phones, cassette players and camcorders, automated manufacturing systems, even c...

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The winemaker is no more than an intermediary between the soil and the wine, and should interfere as little as possible - Edmond Gaudin de Villaine

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IT IS UNLIKELY THAT YOU WILL SPEND very long exploring the wine routes of the Willamette Valley without hearing someone discourse on the subject of the Missoula Floods - Peter Baxter

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No task will be avoided merely because it is impossible - a sign hanging above the doorway of the Benoit Veneta Winery

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