Less than an hour’s drive south of Portland, Oregon, the Willamette Valley feels very much like Northern California’s Napa and Sonoma wine regions of years past: quiet, rural, friendly, laid back and bursting with jaw-dropping beauty.

Stretching over 150 miles long and 60 miles wide, this agricultural powerhouse covers 5,372 square miles and is the heart of Oregon’s wine country. It produces outstanding Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and other revered varietals which draw wine lovers from around the Pacific Northwest and the world.

And it’s not just vineyards that abound here: there are u-pick lavender and fruit farms, hazelnut orchards and honey producers tucked here and there in these rolling hills which rise above the mighty Wiliamette River, which flows 200 miles from m

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