Wine Lists
By type
By region
Areas are for trip planning: neighborhoods, towns and touring country. They aren’t AVAs.
Portland
- Downtown/Pearl Urban rooms you can walk to from a downtown hotel. 1 listed
- Northwest Portland Nob Hill shops and rooms — no car required. 3 listed
- Southeast Portland Working urban wineries, mostly Division and the inner east. 6 listed
- Northeast Portland Alberta and the inner eastside — shops and small rooms. 2 listed
- North Portland St. Johns and the north side. A handful of rooms, not a strip. 1 listed
- Southwest Portland John’s Landing and the west hills. More shops than estate rows. 1 listed
Willamette Valley
Lists with a stated rule
- Taste without leaving town Included: venues in one of Portland’s six city areas whose own site says they’re open to visitors, walk-in or by appointment. Event-only venues are left out. 6 places →
- Room for eight Included: the venue’s own site or booking page states a standard tasting party of 8 or more. Places that ask you to call first are left out unless they also state a number. 11 places →
- Weddings with a roof option Included: the venue advertises weddings and its own pages describe indoor event space. Where the indoor capacity isn’t published, we say so. 7 places →
What’s an AVA?
An American Viticultural Area is a grape-growing region recognized by the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. It describes where grapes grow, not where you taste. We show a venue’s AVA only when its own site places it there. An urban tasting room doesn’t get an AVA from the wines it pours.
- Willamette Valley The large grape-growing designation that covers the valley between the Coast Range and the Cascades. Most of the smaller AVAs south-west of Portland sit inside it.
- Dundee Hills A cluster of hills above Dundee and Dayton, known for red volcanic soils.
- Chehalem Mountains The ridge between Newberg and the west Portland suburbs.
- Yamhill-Carlton Foothill vineyards wrapped around the towns of Yamhill and Carlton.
- McMinnville Foothills west and south-west of the town of McMinnville.